[iofj]

> Anyway, do you also object to the measures that were enacted to stop the use of CFCs? Leaded gasoline? Or the work that is currently being done to prevent the global climate change from reaching catastrophic levels?

These examples are not the same thing at all. Nobody's outlawing research in any of those examples you're giving. I believe anyone should have the option to create AI persons, just like anyone should have the option to have babies. Having our society gradually transform from human to digital should be a very desirable and welcome strategy, and our best bet to prevent Skynet-like scenarios, and even war in general, between humans. It is our best bet to allow continuing scientific and economic advancement for thousands of years, and for that reason alone we should do it. Frankly, economic development means peace.

In the long term, doesn't it go without saying that human bodies are a limit that we (as a society, not necessarily as individuals) will one day leave behind ?

[1] http://cdiac.ornl.gov/GCP/images/countries_co2_emissions.jpg

[coldtea]

>Having our society gradually transform from human to digital should be a very desirable and welcome strategy

Citation or consensus needed. I for one find the notion abhorrent.