[Tokhtamish]

OK, we solve the Social Security problem by uploading aging baby boomers to the Singularity. We could call it Carousel and they would simply renew.

As for machines designing themselves, remember "Westworld" where the resort robotics engineers lost control because the robots had been designing themselves so long that they had no idea how they really worked anymore ?

[B-Chan]

My plan is to hide out somewhere until the last of the Extropians "uploads" himself to the Net. Then I emerge from my mountaintop hideaway, jerk the plug out of the wall, and spend the rest of my life enjoying their stuff.

Uploading can't come soon enough! I've always wanted to take a bath in Dom Perignon...

B-chan