Re: SI's as artists ( was: Superintelligences' motivation)

From: Anders Sandberg (nv91-asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Jan 29 1997 - 09:28:19 MST


On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 QueeneMUSE@aol.com wrote:

> It seems to me that pattern recognition, in itself, it a pleasure reward,
> that, coupled with the ability of a supercomputer to crunch things, it would
> be *design* (a combination of the two) that the SI's will spend most of
> their time on, not any form of physical pleasure we can imagine.

I agree completely. This is what I will do if/when I become a SI. The
more you understand the design/creation process, the more delightful it
becomes (hmm, are artists addicts? :-)

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