From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 10:34:45 MST
ben@goertzel.org (Ben Goertzel) writes:
>No one is done any harm if I voluntarily have my corpse frozen -- yet there
>are a lot of people dead set on taking away my legal right to do so.
The embalmers and funeral parlors who would otherwise have a better
chance of getting paid to dispose of your corpse aren't harmed by
the competition? If you have trouble seeing such a transparent motivation
for special interest politics, you won't be able to anticipate the
reaction to a benevolent AI.
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