From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 12:29:58 MDT
Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> J. R. Molloy writes:
>
> > That sounds like the best of all reasons why AI would want to be friendly. Such
> > pathetic creatures as us could not fail to endear ourselves to AI.
>
> Anthromorphism, and hence irrelevant. Cuddly pathetically cute little
> domesticized furballs typically do not fare well in the jungle.
>
> Once again, assuming the postbiology is indeed diverse, we're either
> considered too primitive to care or just food. Gods ignore us, lesser
> players eat us.
If it is postbiological enough then survival of the fittest and "food"
and "eating" may be quite irrelevant.
- s.
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