Comments on: Eugenia’s First Law of Replication http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:51:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Michelle http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1673 Michelle Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:15:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1673 I partially agree with Luis and also partially agree with Eugenia: many people will be even more creative if we don’t have to worry about material things. Others though will take the easy life. Those that do will be unfulfilled and live sad lives. We all need the tension of striving for something otherwise we wither and die. I partially agree with Luis and also partially agree with Eugenia: many people will be even more creative if we don’t have to worry about material things. Others though will take the easy life. Those that do will be unfulfilled and live sad lives. We all need the tension of striving for something otherwise we wither and die.

]]> By: Richard http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1672 Richard Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:26:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1672 If I was rich I’d propably to do the same things I do today. <img src='http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=":-)" /> Other than that, I do not believe that people are just there to consume. It takes a lot more to be a human, acceptance and recognition among your peers, a lot of people that I know take part in extensive activities in their freetime, they go hiking, the meet and talk, they are are part of amateur orchesters and bands, the go to the curch, the meet to create handicrafts together, they perform in and watch amateur theaters, there is plenty of opportunity to keep occupied, even if you have everything. If I was rich I’d propably to do the same things I do today. :-)

Other than that, I do not believe that people are just there to consume. It takes a lot more to be a human, acceptance and recognition among your peers, a lot of people that I know take part in extensive activities in their freetime, they go hiking, the meet and talk, they are are part of amateur orchesters and bands, the go to the curch, the meet to create handicrafts together, they perform in and watch amateur theaters, there is plenty of opportunity to keep occupied, even if you have everything.

]]> By: Eugenia http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1668 Eugenia Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:51:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1668 >It’s like saying movies in the home will destroy cinema. No, it is not like that AT ALL. Most people I know in my life, they would prefer to do absolutely nothing if they were rich. Just sit their ass all day long around, or go having fun with their friends. Life would be a big party. Very few of them would actually try to become or learn something via some effort (e.g. becoming doctors). Why the effort if they don’t have to do that? There’s no incentive to do anything from the moment you can have everything in life. >It’s like saying movies in the home will destroy cinema.

No, it is not like that AT ALL. Most people I know in my life, they would prefer to do absolutely nothing if they were rich. Just sit their ass all day long around, or go having fun with their friends. Life would be a big party. Very few of them would actually try to become or learn something via some effort (e.g. becoming doctors). Why the effort if they don’t have to do that? There’s no incentive to do anything from the moment you can have everything in life.

]]> By: mikesum32 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1667 mikesum32 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:38:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1667 <i>You see, what is the incentive to spend years to become a scientist or an anti-viral biologist if your stomach is always full and your house full of useless replicated things? There simply isn’t any. People would stop working, would stop learning, would stop worrying about ends meet. The creation of the “market place” is what kickstarted our civilization 6,000 years ago and the demise of it will be the death of our civilization.</i> Your logic is flawed. It’s like saying movies in the home will destoy cinema. That’s what film studio thought when tv was invented, so they adopted widescreen. It didn’t happen, and the world won’t collapse because people have more conveniences and free time. You see, what is the incentive to spend years to become a scientist or an anti-viral biologist if your stomach is always full and your house full of useless replicated things? There simply isn’t any. People would stop working, would stop learning, would stop worrying about ends meet. The creation of the “market place” is what kickstarted our civilization 6,000 years ago and the demise of it will be the death of our civilization.

Your logic is flawed. It’s like saying movies in the home will destoy cinema.

That’s what film studio thought when tv was invented, so they adopted widescreen.

It didn’t happen, and the world won’t collapse because people have more conveniences and free time.

]]> By: Luis http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1670 Luis Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:31:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1670 Creativity is an essential part of human beings. Evolution kickstarted 6000 years ago (as you put it) because conditions were good enough (in certain places) for people to have free time and not have to work all the time to get food and survive. They used that free time to invent new things that would make things even easier. The day we completely master the material world, we’ll put of new found free time into higher creativity. Evolution always goes on. Creativity is an essential part of human beings.

Evolution kickstarted 6000 years ago (as you put it) because conditions were good enough (in certain places) for people to have free time and not have to work all the time to get food and survive. They used that free time to invent new things that would make things even easier.

The day we completely master the material world, we’ll put of new found free time into higher creativity.

Evolution always goes on.

]]> By: Eugenia http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1671 Eugenia Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:40:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1671 I don’t know about you guys, but if I was filthy rich, I wouldn’t move my finger. As I said, YMMV. I don’t know about you guys, but if I was filthy rich, I wouldn’t move my finger. As I said, YMMV.

]]> By: mikesum32 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1669 mikesum32 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:15:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/02/09/eugenias-first-law-of-replication/#comment-1669 Did Steven Spielberg give up movie making when he got rich ? Did Bill Gates quit after he had his first billion (thousand million) ? What about his fiftieth ? Do Greek use thousand-million or billion ? Bill Gates could make his own country in the middle of the ocean if he wanted to and never have to work. Some people fail because they’ve <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness" rel="nofollow">learned to be helpless</a>, they think they have no control. I think your view is too simple. Who will fix the replicators ? People will design new things to be replicated, just like people write new books, create new web pages, or design new cars. People will be able to replicate there own tools. It will be an explosion of creativity. Maybe I want to learn how to fly a model plane. I can replicate one. Maybe I want an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer. With the right tools and instruction I could learn what I want, and even make my own discoveries. A replicator is just a tool. It would change the world, just like all the others. It would be good and bad. Did Steven Spielberg give up movie making when he got rich ?

Did Bill Gates quit after he had his first billion (thousand million) ?

What about his fiftieth ?

Do Greek use thousand-million or billion ?

Bill Gates could make his own country in the middle of the ocean if he wanted to and never have to work.

Some people fail because they’ve learned to be helpless, they think they have no control.

I think your view is too simple.

Who will fix the replicators ? People will design new things to be replicated, just like people write new books, create new web pages, or design new cars. People will be able to replicate there own tools.

It will be an explosion of creativity.

Maybe I want to learn how to fly a model plane. I can replicate one.

Maybe I want an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer.

With the right tools and instruction I could learn what I want, and even make my own discoveries.

A replicator is just a tool. It would change the world, just like all the others.

It would be good and bad.

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