X-Message-Number: 5299 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 21:08:42 -0800 From: John K Clark <> Subject: SCI.CRYONICS Uploading and the Singularity -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I've seen a lot of talk about the virtues and evils of uploading. If you want my 2 cents, I think it's a great idea, but that's just a preference of mine, your mileage may vary, and their is no point in disputing matters of taste. However, I don't think our present desires will have much influence, regardless of your wishes it's likely that you will be an upload someday, assuming that the freezing process doesn't hopelessly scramble the information in your brain, and assuming that the inhabitants of that era bother doing anything at all to you and think you're worth something, at least worth enough to cover the very small cost associated with the uploading process. Some have argued from history, they say the singularity won't happen in the future because nothing like that has happened in the past. Inductive reasoning of that sort should not be dismissed lightly unless their is are compelling reasons to the contrary. I think that compelling evidence does exist. I think intelligence will proceed in a unprecedented direction, undergo a phase change, and become something singular. Perhaps that's why they call it a singularity, not because it's a point on a curve that lacks a derivative. John K Clark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.i iQCzAgUBML052n03wfSpid95AQFmFATw5PyjbZHtgXWlrUSSLOx2mDJNE1QA+LSi f2UkpEGdwkmMQPUur1T4t4nQDLbFl3inMIffGF/6Em27TbgiS7PUJiVYrM2R2u6O nUOLbJMucSo9CWnpQs53+0DXHOz7Cu9uqkYmdx0zuJiy96UYJ72OL4FfMH7G8pjU qRLOcpzBiRnNuSXuzGycyBsVROQkw4xMRVHuad6Nd+fasakX6Rg= =NrEK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5299