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20 Oct 2006, 12:57 am

werbert wrote:
Humanity may have already split in two. You know that world you're in when you get up from the computer to use the bathroom and eat, etc.? I hear that there may actually be people who live exclusively in that world.


Thank goodness for laptops....now instead or reading on the toilet,I bring my computer in and....
ooohhh,to much information....nevermind.


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20 Oct 2006, 4:05 am

krex, you've already said you change diapers for a living, and now this. I am one more bad post from forever associating you with the toilet.


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26 Oct 2006, 1:20 am

shivanataraja wrote:
In my more sci-fi moments i often wonder if maybe AS is actually the start of speciation - Aspies are more likely to find Aspie partners than they are NT partners, and therefore will produce more Aspie children, and perhaps will become a completely distinct population, and maybe eventually genetically evolve enough that Aspies and NTs would no longer be able to breed with one another and produce fertile offspring - thus becoming effectively separate species...

This is similar to species branching out into different environments and speciation being caused by adaptation to new conditions - arguably Aspies are better suited to a high technology world than NTs are, and it's arguably technology (particularly computers and the internet) that has led to Aspies finding partners and breeding with one another (whereas in the past most Aspies would probably have never found partners or had the opportunity to have children).


I think this is already starting to happen in Silicon Valley, California.



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01 Nov 2006, 5:37 am

I always hear that, that we have "too much time" already..

If I could live till 500, I'd definately do it..

I think if a split occured it would be between the Transhumanists and the Naturalists..

Though the paradox is technology seems a natural product of mankinds progress anyway..

Then again we never really notice the rate of technological change, though just think about now, compared to 10 years ago.. Compare that to 10 years before it..

Its exponential, the way its going now, even if you reject enhancement, you'll still live MUCH longer than your parents generation.

Personally if I had a chance (I know how ridiculous it sounds) I would definately pursue trans-humanism, embracing technology wholeheartedly like ultimately we're doing anyway..

Of course you can predict, thats what it is, a prediction.

This article is pretty interesting, and hilarious, at once..

Human body version 2.0:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0551.html?m=5


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