From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 05:11:40 MDT
Samantha Atkins wrote:
>>
>> Hear hear. I espouse roughly this philosophy myself; I'm okay with
>> the concept of romance/parenting after the Singularity, but I'm
>> not going to activate that part of my life before then until I
>> hear a rational, not rationalized, account of how this would
>> advance the Singularity.
>
> My, my. I don't know if this is massive dedication, a deep puritan
> streak, or a bit of both. As Woodie Allen said, "Sex may be a
> meaningless pleasure, but as meaningless pleasure goes, it is the one
> of the best!" Do you engage in anything at all just because it is
> pleasurable and enjoyable to do so? Or is ever waking minute
> dedicated to your work of bring on the Singularity? Do you do
> nothing that you cannot rationally see advances the Singularity?
I've been known to watch anime. Sadly my work output is delimited by
mental energy rather than time. But as Vanessa has very precisely
pointed out:
Vanessa Novaeris wrote:
>
> Yes, but does watching Star Trek require any extended mental or
> emotional commitment beyond the time you spend actually watching it?
> If it does, then by all means, rock on! (I'm kind of like that with
> spongebob.) But I think you get my point.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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