1. Mark R. Waser Digital Wisdom Institute MWaser@DigitalWisdomInstitute.org

3.  Wisdom is doing that which is most congruent with your long-term interests and happiness  Intelligence measures the ability to fulfill goals; wisdom measures the ability to *choose* goals  Many very intelligent people smoke to excess; very few wise individuals *choose* to do so  Most importantly – W ISDOM M EANS E THICS

4. Enlightened Self-Interest Ethics/Morality =  Wisdom is doing that which is most congruent with your long-term interests and happiness Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted -- François La Rochefoucauld, Duc De Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course -- Mason Cooley Long-term

5. The function of ethics (& morality in general) Jonathan Haidt Chapter 20. Morality Handbook of Social Psychology is “to suppress or regulate selfishness and make cooperative social life possible”

6.  Immanuel Kant: Morality Necessitates Immortality  Against Deathism and For Life-Extension Demonstration  Wake Up, Deathists, You DO Want to LIVE 10,000 Years!

7. ... THAN BAD ARGUMENTS FOR A VIEW I HOLD DEAR

8. 1. Is choosing to die selfish?  In particular, what right/autonomy of others is being denied? 2. Does choosing to die prevent cooperation?  Does it cause or promote active justified conflict?

9. 1. Is blocking an entity’s choice to die selfish?  In particular, what possible reason is there for violating their autonomy? 2. Does blocking an entity’s choice to die prevent cooperation?  Is it at all likely to cause them to fight you?

10. The Three Laws: 1)A transhumanist must safeguard one’s own existence above all else. 2)A transhumanist must strive to achieve omnipotence as expediently as possible – so long as one’s actions do not conflict with the First Law. 3)A transhumanist must safeguard value in the universe – so long as one’s actions do not conflict with the First and Second Laws. -- Jethro Knights’ sailing log

11. 1. Is cryonics selfish?  In particular, what right/autonomy of others is being denied? 2. Does cryonics prevent cooperation?  Does it cause or promote active justified conflict? 3. Does cryonics promote cooperation (or “make cooperative social life possible”) ?

12. 1. Is blocking an entity’s choice of cryonics selfish?  In particular, what possible reason is there for violating their autonomy? 2. Does blocking an entity’s choice of cryonics prevent cooperation?  Is it at all likely to cause them to fight you?

13. 1. Is cryonics selfish?  In particular, what right/autonomy of others is being denied? Is the expected/probable implementation of cryonics “selfish and likely to prevent cooperative social living”?

14.  “F AIR ” really means exactly the same thing as “ ETHICAL ” from the individual point of view  “J USTICE ” really means exactly the same thing as “ ETHICAL ” from the societal point of view  If a society (as whole) decides that something is UNSUSTAINABLE (particularly when universalized) or expected to lead to greatly increased INJUSTICE, the ethical solution is to (as a whole) regulate or ban that thing for everyone.  Arguably, cryonics needs that determination and action as soon as possible.

15. Mark R. Waser Digital Wisdom Institute MWaser@DigitalWisdomInstitute.org