Re: Dead humans aren't much fun...

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Dec 08 1999 - 06:48:16 MST


"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:

> "Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
> >
> > We honor the dead, who will never live again (at least on a
> > non-Tiplerian universe)...
>
> Actually, I was kind of planning to go back and get them, if I ever get
> the chance. Closed timelike curves and all that. Let's hear it for
> General Relativity.

"Who were all those guys at Albert's funeral?"
"I don't know, but one of them said that since he figured out the
means, he ought to be the first. Whatever that means."

> Anyway, Lenat isn't dead. Maybe that's the problem. We'd have a better
> chance of freeing the source code if he weren't alive to keep a
> stranglehold on the copyright... (No, that wasn't a hint to any
> aspiring assassins out there. We might still need him.)

Ah, I see that your training in World Domination 101
progressess... :-)

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