From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 04:15:16 MDT
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:31:41AM -0400, Michael Wiik wrote:
> Sometime in the past two weeks, I briefly saw a posting on (maybe)
> slashdot, re some article discussing mankind deliberately devolving into
> a nonsentient species as an end result of adapting to the environment
> (this considered being cheaper than the reverse). I have scanned and
> searched /. archives and google to no effect. Perhaps someone on this
> list noticed it.
I don't think it was /., it was likely me referring to a theory
discussed at length in Karl Schroeder's sf novel _Permanence_. Well
worth reading for its many good ideas.
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