From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 01:58:33 MDT
Michael Wiik wrote:
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Your world doesn't seem to allow for any fun whatsoever post-Singularity.
>>Every computing cycle in existence is devoted to plotting how to get a lock
>>on every available resource that opens up, murder any entity that leaves an
>>opening, and prevent oneself from being murdered. Anyone who devotes less
>>than every available computing cycle quickly falls off the wagon and is
>>murdered. There's no possibility of having enough thought to spare even to
>>cherish a few uploads inside you. Frankly I'm not sure I see much pragmatic
>>difference between a post-Singularity world like this and a world of
>>unintelligent grey goo.
>
Yeah, if that isn't ultratech Hell, then I challenge someone to
produce better. If this was the best we could hope as the
fruition of our mighty technlogical efforts then I would quit
and join a convent.
- samantha
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