From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jun 14 1999 - 07:33:22 MDT
At 11:54 AM 13/06/99 EDT, Greg wrote:
>> life. So TransAnders creates an offspring posthuman which he tweaks
>> the basic values and cognitive patterns of slightly. After a long
>> minute of upbringing, discussions and gradual divergence occurs,
>> during which TransAnders subtly manipulates the offspring into
>> becoming a fierce but clever altruist willing to risk everything to
>> help the humans. In the end it does this, incurring the wrath of
>> everybody else, but never revealing any link to TransAnders since it
>> doesn't know it, and will never allow anybody to read its source code
>> while it is alive.
>
>PLEASE someone write a science fiction novel based on this plot -- great
idea!
Charlie Stross, a sometime-visitor to this list, has done so, but it is as
yet unpublished. Can't understand why. He writes good.
Damien Broderick
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