Ron Paul and the Singularity

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This is probably the most bizarre Ron Paul plugging yet, but lets have fun with it.

The pace of information technology has been accelerating exponentially for over a century, and is just beginning to merge with biotechnology, which is also accelerating exponentially. If the historical exponential trend continues over the next 40 years, we'll essentially be able to re-engineer living humans at will.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/38

One consequence of this trend (as bizarre as it sounds) is that some of us posting here may live for 10,000 years or more, in some form we haven't yet imagined, depending on which exponential technology curve we choose to follow.

However, in the words of Ray Kurzweil, "It's the economic imperative of a competitive marketplace that is the primary force driving technology forward and fueling the law of accelerating returns."

I.E. socialist policy, however attractive it may seem to you at the moment, has the effect of damping the exponential trend -- it will of course still be exponential, but the constant defining which exponential curves we follow well be effected by what fraction of the profitablity of new technology government decides to appropriate for it's own super-noble causes.

So -- are you in your 20's or 30's? If so, you're right on the cusp. Integrating the effect of socialist taxation and various artificial boundaries on technology-driving companies over the crucial next 40 years may very well be the difference in arriving at sufficient people-enhancing technology before you kick off.

So, my shameless plug -- vote Ron Paul and live for 100,000,000 years at a level of consciousness beyond your wildest dreams, personally visiting other solar systems, etc. etc. etc. or vote Barak Obama and be buried at 70 -- but with free dental.