X-Message-Number: 9348 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 14:57:33 +0300 (MSK) From: Eugene Leitl <> Subject: #9342: Tragedy of the Commons [Charles Platt] On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, CryoNet wrote: > Message #9342 > Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 10:05:11 -0500 (EST) > From: Charles Platt <> > Subject: Tragedy of the Commons > [...] > Since none of the 5 or so participants in the discussions of machine > intelligence and human identity shows any sign of changing his opinion on > these topics to any degree whatsoever, and since these discussions have Right, so let's shut this discussion down. This 'My meme is bigger than yours' stops being entertaining after a while. > continued as background noise on CryoNet (often drowning the signal) for > several years, and since the discussions concern matters that cannot be > resolved conclusively till the middle of the next century (by which time > almost all the participants will be dead or frozen)--why bother? one final note: 2050? I wouldn't be as pessimistic as that. Would a realistic model of C. elegans mirroring individual properties count as an upload? We could have that way before 2030. See Mitch's post to transhumantech: http://www.excelsior.org/transhuman_tech_list/msg00180.html ciao, 'gene Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9348