@lonelyowl @houseoftolstoy @judgedread

> I think human nature is something to consider. I don't consider it's holy.

"Holy" is the wrong concept. If you spend your life trying to create Maxwell's demon or a perpetual motion machine, you will regret this to a greater extent than if you put the effort into cold fusion. There is a very good reason for this, and the reason is not that the laws of thermodynamics are "holy".

So you talk about these things like you're talking to someone that is upset that Pepsi changed its logo and that the music kids these days listen to is all clicks and whistles. "Oh, why do we have to reproduce and die, why can't we just solve that problem?" is not something you're going to get done in your lifetime. Feel free to prove me wrong: I'd be delighted if you could. It seems pretty likely to me that we're going to keep screwing and then grabbing our chests and bargling after we run out of cartilage and collagen and if we're lucky, we snuff it while we can still wipe our own asses. If you have a concrete plan, by all means, do not let me get in your way and I'd be delighted to help, but if you don't, then it's purely philosophical. (I do mean concrete.) I'll go in the computer or let Dracula bite me or whatever, that's fine--if it works--but I'm not factoring it into my plans for the future until it's real.