Why remain in the same place? Why not advance?
Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
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>Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 23:09:52 -0800
>From: Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net>
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: work, you silicon slave!
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>
>> >Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>> >> "Why should machines millions of times more intelligent, fecund,
and
>> >> industrious than ourselves exist only to support our ponderous,
antique
>> >> bodies and dim-witted minds in luxury?"
>> Spike Jones said
>> >because we can make them do it? i would, if i could. {8^D spike
>>
>> You can't make them do anything. They will do it for the same reason
we
>> allow dogs and butterflys to live. No more, no less.
>
>tim, i am currently *making* my computers grind away 24 hrs a day
>searching for mersenne prime numbers. just because i can. }8-] spike
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