From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Nov 02 1999 - 11:51:28 MST
"M. E. Smith" <mesmith@rocketmail.com> writes:
> I don't find it hard to imagine an advanced SI
> with a brain the size of a planet thinking,
> analyzing, constructing and testing mental
> models, expending the energies of whole stars,
> for countless terateraflops, trying to understand
> the universe, why it's here, and ultimately giving
> up, realizing it'll never know, and at that moment
> feeling a great awe.
I don't find it hard to imagine the SI one day realizing "Aha! So that
is how it all works..." and then feeling a bit of dissapointment (it
was rather trivial when you think about it) which quickly turns into
the determination of creating something better, something more
interesting.
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