From: Max M (maxm@maxmcorp.dk)
Date: Fri Jan 02 1998 - 18:58:55 MST
I have been wondering about living for ever and ever. That if I was
uploaded and running a Gazillion times faster than now, and living
Billions of times longer than now.
Wouldn't life at some point get boring?
As far as I can see the solution is to not only become a weak super
intelligence. But to actually become more intelligent.
As I am now, the only things that i find interesting are the things I
find hard. Compare something like tic tac toe to chess. Any adult
playing tic tac toe and concentrating about it can hardly loose. At the
same time chess is a very complex game. The rules are a little harder,
but the main challenge comes in the complexity of the system and all of
the possible variations.
I find things interesting right now that animals doesn't. Storytelling,
Pretty pictures, music, science, philosophy, mathematics (well sort of),
Probably as a >H i will find things interesting too that I can't even
comprehend or fathom right now. Therefore I think it will be a long time
before I will get bored.
Thus Max M's first rule of >H ;-) is:
As i get more intelligent and understands the problems I currently have,
i will find new and interesting problems.
I Look forward to chess being as transparent to me as tic tac toe is
right now, and me playing some kind of 1000'th dimensional checkers.
Or maybe then I will still try to understand my own mind which will
probably race ahead of my "self" in complexity.
MAX M Rasmussen
Denmark
New Media Director & Multimedia Artist
Private biz: mailto:maxm@maxmcorp.dk
http://www.maxmcorp.dk
The graphic 3D novel:
http://www.maxmcorp.dk/graphicnovel/index.htm
Work: mailto:maxm@novavision.dk
http://www.novavision.dk/
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