From: Darin Sunley (rsunley@escape.ca)
Date: Mon Nov 06 2000 - 22:02:32 MST
-----Original Message-----
From: Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net>
To: extropians@extropy.org <extropians@extropy.org>
Date: Monday, November 06, 2000 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: Humor: helping Eliezer to fulfill his full potential
[snippage]
>Honest to god, life is fun, even those decades
>that have 3s and 4s in the tens column. Tell us that the AI guys
>are planning *something* as an escape mechanism, and I mean
>something more convincing than Clarke's automatic cable cutter
>on HAL's power cord. Let's see: packing explosives around
>the SIAI mainframe rigged to explode should HWoMBeP's heart
>stop...
>
>{8^D spike
>
I just visualized a nanite swarm bleeding out of the computer console,
enveloping all human beings in the room, and receding, leaving only an
elegant reliquary [sp?] [container for relics, medieval Catholic church
thing] containing Eliezer's still-beating heart.
eek.
:)
Darin Sunley
rsunley@escape.ca
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