From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@ricochet.net)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 21:44:46 MDT
Samantha wrote
>Jerry Mitchell wrote:
>> I can see this coming from a channel like #hottub
>> or #partyzone, but I get this response from the great
>> intellectuals on the #philosophy channel? What do we
>> do with all these crazy people!!!!?
First, I assume that this is not a serious question.
"We" don't do and aren't able to do anything to "them",
one hopes.
>Make sure they do not control the outcomes for all of us.
>Give them room to be crazy and yet to learn and to change.
>Keep them from ultimate destructiong.
Yes.
>Pop them into a super-VR come the Singularity where they can
>work their kinks out?
I presume that we as well as they will find ourselves in
a sort of VR; but if you mean that "they" will be somehow
sequestered, I cannot imagine it. You will have the same
freedom then that you have now to simply not associate with
them; they never bother me because I don't go asking for it.
What about when one of "them" wants to contact one of
"us"? One solution to unsolicited messages is for one
to have a set, standard fee for that---even now, there
wouldn't be a problem with spam or annoying phone calls
if that were the case.
I used to think it quite useless years ago to hear people
pronounce "well, we're all mentally ill". But from the
perspective of an SI, it could well be true.
Lee Corbin
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