DT: Cryonics or Cremation?

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Re: DoubtingThomas: Cryonics or Cremation?

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DT wrote:I doubt a futuristic society is going to be malevolent. Humanity has the capacity to commit planetary suicide. If humans don't destroy each other with nuclear wars then I think we are going to be just fine.


Sam Harris doesn't seem as optimistic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nt3edWLgIg
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.

LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
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DoubtingThomas wrote:...If humans don't destroy each other with nuclear wars then I think we are going to be just fine.

tell that to the Dinisaurs.
Its naïve to think humans will ever conquer nature.
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Re: DoubtingThomas: Cryonics or Cremation?

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subgenius wrote:
DoubtingThomas wrote:...If humans don't destroy each other with nuclear wars then I think we are going to be just fine.

tell that to the Dinisaurs.


I informed a chicken that humans are going to be fine. The chicken had no reply.
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EAllusion wrote:I informed a chicken that humans are going to be fine. The chicken had no reply.

indeed, as Bertrand R says, the chicken always loves seeing the farmer and then one day instead of grain the farmer brings a hatchet.
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Re: DoubtingThomas: Cryonics or Cremation?

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Gadianton wrote:Sam Harris doesn't seem as optimistic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nt3edWLgIg

I guess we will have to wait to see what happens. However, A.I. is a risk we should be willing to take.
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DoubtingThomas wrote:...(snip)...However, A.I. is a risk we should be willing to take.

por que?
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Re: DoubtingThomas: Cryonics or Cremation?

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DoubtingThomas wrote:I guess we will have to wait to see what happens. However, A.I. is a risk we should be willing to take.


What is the risk and why do you think the risk is worth it?
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Re: DoubtingThomas: Cryonics or Cremation?

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I think Subgenius is right about Gadianton's molecules continuing to exist in some altered form, whether as soil nutrients or atmospheric emissions.
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Re: DoubtingThomas: Cryonics or Cremation?

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honorandtheos wrote:Assuming an omniscient blue-print reading, I'm guessing?

right -- the point. ; )
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.

LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
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Re: DT: Cryonics or Cremation?

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Robert Frost wrote:Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization."
- Will Durant
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