>From: Pvthur@aol.com
>In a message dated 9/5/00 1:08:22 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
>zero_powers@hotmail.com writes:
>
><< Personally, while I’d be grateful to the ants for bringing me into
> existence, I doubt that I’d long be willing to enslave myself to them
>for
> the favor. >>
>
>So you don't get along with your folks either? I personally don't discuss
>anything much deeper than the weather with mine. But I don't consider time
>spent with them slavery.
I get along fine with my folks, thanks. And no, I don't consider time spent
with them slavery. But then again they are not constantly asking me to
solve their problems, answer their questions or grant their wishes. If they
did it would not be long before I limited my phone calls to every other
Mother's Day.
>The road from human equivalence to Power is not instantaneous. Any initial
>post-human AI will be an information-hound. We are full of information.
>It'll
>upload us like so many glazed donuts. We will become it. It will be us.
Hmm. I don't think so. We will probably be unbelievably ignorant and
stupid to the AI. But even if it did for some reason want to "upload" me,
until I get some details about what exactly that will entail, that is *not*
a comforting thought.
-Zero
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