From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Fri Dec 22 2000 - 10:53:31 MST
> I have a large number of aborted papers on various
> transhumanist topics rotting on my hard drive. Each started with the
> intention to write down some simple idea in a couple of pages, but in the
> process of doing so one is led to think more carefully about the subject
> and all sorts of complications arise. Still, I don't see these efforts as
> wasted.
>
>
> Nick Bostrom
Don't discard those efforts. We can use them later to test SI candidates.
An AI that successfully completes all our unfinished papers (with or without
our collaboration) earns the right to whatever degree we choose to confer.
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
3M TA3
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Useless hypotheses: consciousness, phlogiston, vitalism, mind, free will
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