Re: Latest vanity game: Googlism

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 10:38:44 MST


On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 08:08:42AM -0800, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, John Grigg wrote:
>
> > Robert,
> >
> > Take it easy on Anders!! : )
>
> Why? He isn't exactly a moving target. Well, maybe he's moving
> but its in a fairly predictable direction.

That is just because you don't see the components of my velocity in the
other dimensions. :-)

> > But at least *I* have a really perceptive quote(for when the Anders Sandberg autobiography comes out!)...
> >
> > http://www.bartleby.com/66/98/26098.html
>
> Now that *was* amusing. If you keep this up you may give
> Spike a run for his money as the Extropian Humorist.

:-) Actually, with these kinds of early applications we can already see
the trend towards true *auto*biography: software that puts together
biographies on demand.

I predict that given enough intelligence amplification everybody will
seem like a super-erudite intellectual, making offhanded references to
truly obscure issues like the Tiberian enigmas - and since the listeners
also have it, it will seem like ordinary witticisms. And everybody will
have at least the auto-biography of everybody else - you only make an
autobiography to tell people what isn't in the auto-biography.

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