From: Avatar Polymorph (avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 19:43:01 MDT
Avatar Polymorph wrote:
"Some ethics and all culture remain very freeform in the future, so I am
sure fiction and fictional movies-realities are not going to die out ever,
even with "friendly self-directed superintelligences"!"
Elizier wrote:
"The freedom to grow in all directions doesn't necessarily mean that movies
are preserved it at least one of those directions. It could be a strict
artifact of human-level intelligence. I'm not saying it, mind you, just
that a tremendous (transhuman) diversity of posthuman cultures doesn't imply
that a given facet of human culture will be preserved in at least one of
them."
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ ------- But remember the superintelligent Gaian world-mind-being in John Varley's Titan and Wizard and Demon? Ve used to watch television soapies! Just because you can think quickly sometimes doesn't mean you'd always want to. Just because you can generate a limited vr in your head (i.e. presumably under ethical rules) doesn't mean you forego movies. Maybe non-modified or "reset periodically" mortal humans would be more into movies... but occasional interest by a superintelligence is perfectly feasible. Remember, there's more capable, not less. The argument doesn't hold across the board for everything (e.g. making stone tools is only done by a small minority now) but most art forms remain despite new ones coming into existence. Photography never supplanted painting. Even nanopaintings with moving 3-D pixels reproducing paint swirls as they shift won't necessarily replace "static" set paintings that decay in a few millenia. Also, it all depends on how far superintelligence goes and in what directions, virtuality or overtuality, within rules of privacy and other ethical factions, and also on how superintelligent humans are now in some areas such as imagination and dreaming (intelligence comes in many forms and types) - for further discussion on this issue see bjklein.ocm (forum for immortalists) at: http://www.bjklein.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=&TOPIC_ID=418Avatar Polymorph _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
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