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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:14:25 -0400
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There is absolutely no solid evidence of mass extinctions.  No one has 
ever gone to the trouble of counting the number of species of life on 
earth.  The many doomsdayers who continue to foment alarmist scenarios 
keep dragging out numbers and "statistics" which, when traced to their 
sourcesturn out to be mere conjectures by other doomsday prophets.  
There is no basis for any of them. There are billions of plant and 
animal species, and then there are the bacteria, some of which are 
vital to life and others of which are real killers whose extinction 
would be a blessing to humans.  Without extinctions, sometimes mass 
extinctions, there would be no evolution.  Humanity, in fact, is the 
first species to even care about the preservation of species and we are 
doing a lot to preserve many species which mother nature would 
otherwise dispose of. I applaud this effort of preservation because it 
may be helpful for humanity in various ways, but we should realize that 
we are counteracting mother nature, not following her. I suspect that 
the underlying desire of the most vociferous extinction screamers is to 
stop progress in its tracks, shut down the factories and the 
laboratories, forget about science as the engine of progress, send us 
back to the good old days which never were, forget about the third 
world billions who still live in misery largely because they cling to 
pre-scientific ideas, and forget about extending life because there are 
too many people here already.  Such an ideology, in my opinion, is 
fundamentally anti-humanist and also very dangerous for cryonics.  At 
some point they may want to mount a crusade to save the earth from 
these life-extenders, perhaps in a way reminiscent of the do-gooders in 
Sagan's "Contact" movie who destroy the spaceship thing Ron Havelock

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    #28005: Uneasy about the Singularity [marta sandberg]

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Message #28005
From: "marta sandberg" <>
Subject: Uneasy about the Singularity
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:09:21 +0800

I am v-e-r-y uneasy about some sort of super-being evolving as part of 
the
Singularity.

Maybe a really intelligent being would not harm us, either because it 
was
against its ethics or because it didn't even notice us.

Maybe . . .

But we are the most intelligent thing on Earth at the moment and we are
spending a lot of time and effort in finding new and innovative ways of
killing off each other.  Meanwhile; almost by accident; we have also 
caused
mass extinctions of a scale on par with any previous mass extinctions.

Maybe . . . the next super intelligence won't do what we did.

Maybe . . .

Long life (maybe. . . )

Marta

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