From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 23:28:47 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 01:04 PM 7/2/02 +0930, Emlyn wrote:
>
>
>>>Natasha's "Primo"
>>>I'm already saving up for mine.
>>
>
>>I don't think I'd buy one. I might hire one once in a while if I need to
>>drop back into the physical world for some reason.
>
>
> Hire! That's the trouble with kids today--bone lazy! Why, when I was an
> upload, we used to have our agents forage for atoms and *roll our own*.
...
You were an UPLOAD? By golly, in my day, you had a BRAIN made of SLOWLY
DYING NEURONS that you had to carry around in a BUCKET OF DECAYING MEAT
and if you didn't like it you could TERMINATE.
Jeez. I'm not looking forward to winning every old fogey contest for
the next million years.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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