Re: Infinite anticipation

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 12:28:37 MST


Jacques Du Pasquier wrote:
>
> Actually what I described happens on a life level when people keep
> dreams/projects that cheer them up and then never act on them. But in
> life you reach a point when you think it is too late to realize the
> project, or to realize it as fully as you would have by starting
> earlier, and then you have the "bad trip" : life is ending and I
> haven't done what I wanted to do. Awful.

There's actually a pretty easy way to avoid this...

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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