Re: Otter vs. Yudkowsky: Both!

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 00:31:15 MST


'What is your name?' 'Damien Broderick.' 'Do you deny having written the
following?':

> Uh, if you don't mind losing your bones, and having all that mutagenic
> sleet ripping through your vulnerable cells day and night forever.
>
> Damien
> [am I missing some breakthru here? or is there an implicit assumption of
> fix-everything-nano in hand before you launch?]

No, though I was assuming that a fix to these problems, and, more
generally, the problem of sustaining life in space, would be in hand. No
small task, but, then, neither is transhuman AI.

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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