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Every mass extinction, a new DNA set is gaining traction.

• mirimir 10y ago
  That's quite a jump in time scale. The overall lifetime of the human species is miniscule, relative to the timing of mass extinctions.
  • sametmax 10y ago
    Of course. But once we are immortal, the timescale changes.
    • mirimir 10y ago
      Fair enough :) But on that scale, why would we be limited to flesh? I'm reminded of Sobornost practices in Hannu Rajaniemi's Jean le Flambeur trilogy. Basically, make numerous copies of a mind, introducing more-or-less random changes, and select on some set of criteria. I mean, why is natural selection limited to biological systems?
      • sametmax 10y ago
        It's not. We could in the end create our own pool for it. Would we be wise enough to do it?
        • mirimir 10y ago
          Well, if a few billion people were doing it, at least some of them would get useful results. We might get lots of [insert name of "famous" person] variants, however.