Oh, Alan, not the rant that transhumanists are only into uploading and will upload people by force again. We don't want any trolls in our nice upload space. :P
You are on your own. On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Alan Grimes <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd loose my troll credentials if I didn't respond to this. =| > > My position is that I feel that uploading is crowding out all other > forms of transhumanism, especially ones that I find more interesting > (read: sexy). Many of the writings of the several self-proclaimed > transhumanists basically demand the conclusion that there is an ongoing > program, that is quickly picking up momentum, to impose a new religious > doctrine that states that Transhumanism really is nothing other than a > single, very specific, form of mind uploading and that, after a grace > period of maybe a week and a half, everyone who does not voluntarily > upload, will be uploaded anyway but an attempt will be made to conceal > this fact and the uploadee will be expected to somehow enjoy being in > this prison that is Just Like Earth(tm). > > I'm writing a response to that, currently at 41,000 words. =P > > I think I'm going to have to write a post to the other list.... > > John Rose wrote: > > 2. Many, or most religions already have had a "transhumanist" element, > that > > is leaving the body in the afterlife for example. > > > > Contemporarily created religions naturally will have the "afterlife" more > > practically spec'd out, for example if you wanna go Linux or Windows, be > > cross-platform or whatever. The soul might be an RFC and have XML web > > services interface. We might celebrate the birth of Sergey Brin and > create a > > high-tech digital hell where your mind upload is tortured if you do > wrong, > > like for example being forced to watch Bucky and Pepito reruns while > > listening to Leonard Cohen for 1000 years. > > > > Same old stuff but new technologies... > > -- > IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. > > Powers are not rights. > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/2997756-fc0b9b09 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
