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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Max More's speech at TedX Hong Kong

I have trouble appreciating the objection that you might not know anyone upon revival in Future World. We often wind up in situations like that now, for example, when you go to college, join the military or start a new job. Usually you have friends and relatives in the background somewhere, but not always. A lot of the people who migrated to the U.S. basically did it without ever seeing their friends and families in their home countries again. Cryonauts might find themselves in a similar situation as well, unless you befriend enough cryonicists like yourself beforehand. Some of them might make it through revival with you. I can see how that could lead to an awkward time for me regarding a certain woman.

I wonder if rejuvenation would conflict with self-actualizing into Max calls an "ultramature" person. For example, if you had a 300-year-old Lenina Crowne sort of woman, which would have the upper hand in her behavior when she meets a man who appeals to her hypergamous mating inclinations: Her judgment, or her hormones, assuming that women in Future World would still work that way physiologically? In other words, the development of judgment seems to happen independently of one's age, and it often fails to develop at all, given all the seniors I've known who didn't impress me as wise. The aging of an unwise person, for example, the sort of guy who fathers bastard children he can't or won't support, picks fights with similar guys over issues of status ("honor") and commits assorted crimes, works to our benefit by making him less troublesome. Would you want to rejuvenate that guy if he couldn't learn to control himself back when he had an efficient metabolism and plenty of testosterone, and he doesn't show signs of learning to do that now?

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