From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Dec 28 2000 - 10:17:30 MST
Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> I think it would come closer to keeping me sane in such insance
> circumstances if I spent my remaining time writing up the racial memoirs
> and broadcasting/recording them so that some other race might benefit
> from our mistakes. Ours (including my esteemed self) would be pretty
> clearly toast.
Suppose you don't have a broadcaster? Anyway, the whole point of that
thought experiment was to create a situation where there is no longer
anything you can do at the planetary scale. Perhaps, in reality, there is
always something you can do at the planetary scale, if you look hard
enough, but I specifically ruled that out to make a point.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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