[Hplusroadmap] Here's my solution to those 'ethics' calls re: DIY biotech.

[Arthur Endlein]

A ultra resistant bunker made to survive - well, anything at all, whose
insides would contain means  for information safekeeping, both generalistic
(as of various common aspects of human society) and individual, where the
complete life of a number individuals would be recorded, in direct video and
audio (some sort of collar with a camera and microphone that the user would
be able to use all day without having to worry about it - virtually
indestructible, easily rechargeable (by some yet to be defined mean), high
capacity data compression and wireless transmission (maybe trough
wi-fi/bluetooth/cell phone, maybe all of them and just find the most
suitable on the moment) and, if possible, means to record chemical and
neural levels, as to somewhat determine the feelings of the person in any
moment of the roll), particular thoughts and ideas (by some sort of blog, or
related technology (integrated or not to the collar). I believe that it
would be important to let the subject give a personal impression on his/her
own life) and "world impact scans" (Interpolated and extrapolated data from
the raw bulk generalistic database using advanced search programs to make a
crude report on the results caused by that person on mankind).
After the main mankind annihilation impact, the main computers (actually the
main virtual computers, as every single processor core in the bunker's
network would be used. While in a war against the end of the world, it is
probably a good idea not waste a single CPU cycle) would use multiple arrays
of ground and satellite sensors to be able to figure out what happened, and
then theorize on how long would it take to earth be inhabitable once again.
As this might take way more time than originally predicted, the whole bunker
complex would start an automatized routine on to preserve it's integrity.
Basically, it must be time immune, complete with full recycling, mining,
design rerouting and readaptation, manufacture and repairing. A man made
life being on it's own, just much bigger than it's biologic counterparts.
Then a design fork: it must be decided on whether the bunker would only
serve as a backup storage of humans and ideas, who would wait for nicer
world conditions to start breeding humans and helping them rebuild and
maintain a new batch of mankind or it would be as well a backup downscaled
earth, with a living environment made to support a small society of a few
hundreds or thousands (well, it could, in theory, be made to support any
reasonable amount of humans, or have means to transport people throughout
the globe between bunkers). I'll suppose the second, but each of them has
it's own perks and difficulties.
When the system finds that the bunker internal area is in a good enough
shape to support enough beings, it would wake it's human breeding facilities
(during it's "hibernation" it would still be working, actually, by slowly
maintaining mutation-free human egg cell strains, as we'll probably still
not be able to fully synthesize live cells by the time we build it), who
would start production of bodies. Now, the personality backups would
probably be first used by maintaining the generated humans on stimuli
reproduction systems, that would try and copycat the sensations of the
chosen persons to be rebirth. Once ready, it is another complex design
decision on how would be the newborn's (newreleased, to be exact)
relationship with it's past "memories". Would direct access to them be
allowed, or it would have to rely on what it "absorbed" during it's time
inside on artificial stimuli (with the possibility on not even letting the
first humans know that they are mostly crude reproductions of long dead
ones, if it is determined that the impact of both knowing such and having to
restart humanity would be too overwhelming for most. The concept of noble
lies is a always complex subject, one that in this particular case would
have major impact on the future of those we'll leave buried even deeper than
our long forgotten graves)?
Well, anyway, this is just an insight, one that might be a bit off-topic.
Sorry about that.
2008/6/13 Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com>:

> On Friday 13 June 2008, Bryan Bishop wrote:
> > do emerge and so on? That's not good at all. That's not something
> > that regulatory policy is going to stop, that's something that's as
> > bad as a disease. Think about the problems that we have with the
> > Center for Disease Control and Prevention: they can hardly control
> > the common cold, much less the flu, much less anything with more
> > letters to its name.
>
> Oops. Actually, in all honesty, those guys are doing an awesome job, but
> the common day-to-day infectious diseases, germs, bacteria, viruses,
> etc., are in fact an example of something that they cannot control.
>
> - Bryan
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