From: Stefan Pernar (stefan.pernar@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 01:58:12 MDT
Yes - I agree absolutely.
Stefan
On 10/16/07, Harry Chesley <chesley@acm.org> wrote:
>
> Agreed. However, even life in a 25-year-old body would get boring
> eventually. But life with an expanding level of augmented intelligence
> could stay interesting for a /long/ time -- I'll stop short of
> "forever," since I assume intelligence tops out at some point.
>
> (But if all you want is to stay happy, there are many easier ways: Larry
> Niven's wireheads, for example (trickle current to the pleasure center
> of your brain); or rereading that /really/ great book over and over,
> erasing the memory of it in between. Stagnation, yes, but very happy
> stagnation. This is my theory of why we haven't been visited by ETs:
> most or all civilizations fall into the trap of just wanting to be happy.)
>
> On 10/15/2007 2:23 AM, Stefan Pernar wrote:
> > People associate a long life with getting old and getting old with
> > getting frail and sick. They do not realize that they could live
> > forever in the healthy body of a 25 year old.
> > Stefan
> >
> > On 10/15/07, *Joshua Fox* <joshua@joshuafox.com
> > <mailto:joshua@joshuafox.com>> wrote:
> >
> > For many people, the thought is not so much "I prefer death over
> > immortal life," since they do not imagine that there is any
> > practical possibility of the latter, but rather "let's find
> > whatever good aspects there are in this completely inevitable and
> > unpleasant thing."
> >
> > Joshua
> >
> >
> >
> >
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