From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 16:23:51 MDT
Eugene Leitl writes,
> Where do you think a bunch of mutually competitive uploads are headed,
> if you're not part of the fray? AIs might beat them on the path to the
> SI, if given a chance, but I doubt there will be much subjective
> difference between them two from an outsider's point of view. (Which
> probably means that it's not a good idea to play the role of a bemused
> onlooker).
I only bemuse myself with playing an onlooker when I know that competitive
participants are headed nowhere that interferes with my own progress toward
transcendence. The Buddha in the robot goes on and on, despite mortal fears.
> One or two of them might be still human (and nice) enough to yank the
> bystanders into the virtual realm to prevent them from going extinct,
> before zooming off to SI.
Yes, I trust SIs to have the nicety to yank the likes of you and me into virtual
encyclopedic immortality. After all, if we don't offer SIs interest and
entertainment value equal to or greater than that of dinosaur fossils to
archeologists, then we shan't be counted as very interesting at all. Let us not
allow our vanity to place ourselves above organisms which ruled the Earth for
millions of years, since we have only been around for a few hundred thousand
years.
--J. R.
"The more I meditate on superintelligence, the more deeply I fall in love with
it."
--Alligator Grundy
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