What will the cloned cow muscle cells think about the issue?

edit: I think you guys here over-focus on rational decision making and forget that what sets us apart from animals, in terms of intelligence, is our ability to invent solutions and solve problems. Including the problems like 'how to have a steak without killing a cow'. It's just that we as species are barely capable of invention, and so it takes us a great time to get there. There's no doubt that killing cows like we do now will be outlawed after we find another way to have the steak.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

Robert Brault

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Oh Blueberry, you so Doylist!

Is there any financial advisor or financial book that you can recommend without reservation and that people can take without exercising caution?

What cryonics is missing is a catchy slogan, something along the lines of "afterlife for atheists".

There was this post on LessWrong about thinking an AI could be prevented from being angry by cooling it down using a freezer.

I can't seem to find it now though.

Unrelated: They did that in a movie called Primer, which I recommend to people who like MOR and deciphering probably-correct engineering-speak.

That makes me want to read Very Bad Deaths very much, which was probably not your intended effect.

Oh no, I thought it was quite good, but it's not really for the weak of stomach. One of the main characters is also basically Spider Robinson himself, so if that's not your cup of tea I would suggest looking elsewhere-- personally, though, I did find it quite entertaining.

Are you sure you're not making the mistake of confusing a character's beliefs with the authors?

No-- in fact I'm nearly positive that I am making that mistake, but I find it comparatively hard to not make given Robinson's general style. The whole thing just squicks me out.

I would also argue that, for much of Robinson's work, the characters' beliefs are those of the author (and indeed the characters themselves are essentially the author)-- though I don't think Night of Power suffers from this.

Just curious, have you read Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"? Night of Power is full of allusions to it and it may not make as much sense if you haven't.

Certainly I have. Robinson has always struck me as sort of a bargain-basement Heinlein.