Get off the beach! Tsunami coming!

[runequester]

It just occurred to me that one day we might have to compete with something like that.

Genetic engineering is becoming quite sophisticated. What's to prevent some seriously demented genetic engineer from trying to create our replacements in the workplace?

Would those creatures have rights or would they be processions?

The cynic would say that if history is a guide, they'll receive rights as individuals 50 years later.

The optimist would say that we are sufficiently enlightened to grant them immediately.

The practical would go read Uplift again

[runequester]

Missed that series of books.
The idea looks grimmer than the plot synopsis of each book would indicate.

100,000 years of indentured servitude? Do they ever discuss why no uplifted species ever revolts against its sponsors?

I havent read them in a long time, so I forget. I seem to recall the story was mainly from the human perspective. I should dig them up again... been without good scifi for a while

[runequester]

Human history stretches over a long time, and rapid, easy spread of knowledge is a pretty recent thing. A lot of "inventing things again" has gone on, before literacy became a "normal" thing.

[runequester]

I think atheists are blind to evidence that faces them their every waking moment.
Or they just deny it.
I feel much more comfortable with my own morality, not because I believe in an afterlife, but because I now believe my life to be a very small part of an ongoing spectacle that will continue to unfold after me.
Who would want to live forever?

I think believers are blind to evidence that faces them their every waking moment.
Or they just deny it.


Or maybe sweeping generalizations is something we should all put behind us.

[runequester]

So you can have your humanist views affirming agnostic or atheistic sentiments and I can have mine.
In the long run it doesn't matter because we will never get an answer to this question.
And one day, we will be gone.
I can live with that.

In the end, the important part isn't if we get an answer, it's if the universe runs on 68K

[runequester]

Well we all know the answer to "Life, The Universe and Everything" is 42...

So we just need to figure out how we get the 68K to come up with the answer 42 and bobs your uncle, we will have proof that the universe and everything in it runs on 68K...

(Just hope to gawd it doesn't turn out to be run on an old ZX Spectrum running on a Z80 or were really stuffed... :eek:)

thatd explain the dodgy graphics when I walk outside

[runequester]

For the Gnostic, blind faith is a stranger..
 
I love how this topic is all the place.

I love that Apple, CUSA and Morph vs OS4 hasn't come up at all