in spite of his wife's protests, putting off having children until he has made the world 'a safer place', ideally by banishing death. Along with increasing numbers of people in the immortality field, Klein believes artificial intelligence may be the best way forward, hence his new partnership with [Ben] Goertzel. There are two possibilities arising from AI. Either a super- intelligent computer could master the medical problems of human ageing that currently baffle us or, more speculatively, we could back-up our personalities by downloading them on to such a machine.
Imminst has been highly successful. It is primarily web-based--you can find it at www.imminst.org--and the quality and responsiveness of its site is extremely high.
from Bryan Appleyard: How to Live Forever or Die Trying: Excerpts: Chapter 1: The Atlanta Braves
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