From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 21:12:43 MST
Nicq MacDonald wrote:
>
> You admit that a life subject to harmonious Apollonian reason is dull- then
> why the fervent embrace of it? I'd rather not fall down into the pit of
> Because and perish with the dogs of Reason- I have a life to live. The
> experiences that I enjoy the most, the most magical, beautiful, and sublime
> events in my life, also tend to be the most destructive, pointless, and
> irrational- yet I do them anyway. I continually ask why, yet reason
> provides no answers... none relevant to my own experiences, anyway.
>
> I'll let someone else worry about the singularity. I have other things to
> be doing between now and then.
My life doesn't need sex and violence. It has plot.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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