From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 18:30:00 MDT
At 02:40 AM 28/09/00 -0400, Eliezer wrote:
>> >only if the SI possesses an explicit drive for
>> >reproduction and diversification at the expense of its own welfare.
>> This seems a rather odd thing to read from a fan of mutation-with-selection
>> accounts of lebenforms.
>I'm a fan of *what*? Either you have me confused with 'gene or this is
>Damienspeak for "evolutionary psychology".
That would be "Damiensprach".
I would never do anything so strange & terrifying as confusing Eliezer with
'gene.
But in fact my shorthand reference to "lebenforms" was via Wil McCarthy's
fun and interestingly apocalyptic post-Singularity novel BLOOM. (McCarthy
is a "rocket guidance engineer, robot designer, science fiction author and
occasional aquanaut. He has contributed to three interplanetary spacecraft,
five communication and weather satellites, a line of landmine-clearing
robots", and some classified programs, sez Science Fiction Weekly.)
Damien Broderick
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