From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 10:21:35 MDT
Pvthur@aol.com wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
I'd have to agree. Most likely, either it would seek others to interact
with on its own level (probably easiest path: upgrade the ants that made
it), or it would seek to expand its own capacity (probably easiest path:
tap into whatever silicon-or-equivalent computer hardware is available,
then tap into the biological computing hardware available - of which we
are the most advanced, and thus most likely to be tapped first).
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