Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

In article <fvpocg$mb$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In article <fvpnf9$8sv$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>justinf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Justin Fang) said:
>> William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> justinf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Justin Fang) said:

>>>> It's the sort of scenario that starts making an Egan-style
>>>> upload-everyone-and-abandon-flesh solution look reasonable.

>>> When isn't that reasonable?

>> When people mostly don't want to do it.  Even ignoring questions
>> of technical plausibility and the usual philosophical issues, I
>> just don't think the prospect of becoming a entity of pure code is
>> going to be appealing to most humans in most situations.

>Well then, when the tech becomes available they can decline to
>partake, and die along with their meat in one or two handfuls of
>decades while the rest of us shake our heads in sad wonder.

That assumes that uploading will come along before indefinite biological
life extension.  I don't see much reason to believe that one imaginary
technology should be easier than the other.

-- 
Justin Fang (justinf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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