X-Message-Number: 9342 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 10:05:11 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Platt <> Subject: Tragedy of the Commons On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Perry Metzger wrote a boring reply titled "a reply to more boring text from Thomas Donaldson," who of course was writing a reply to another boring post from Perry Metzger writing a reply to another post from Thomas Donaldson, and so on: [snipped out of compassion for readers] Since none of the 5 or so participants in the discussions of machine intelligence and human identity shows any sign of changing his opinion on these topics to any degree whatsoever, and since these discussions have continued as background noise on CryoNet (often drowning the signal) for several years, and since the discussions concern matters that cannot be resolved conclusively till the middle of the next century (by which time almost all the participants will be dead or frozen)--why bother? --Puzzled, New York Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9342