Re: META: Transhumanist art ( was upload motivations)

From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 1997 - 19:21:43 MST

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> If one of you could commission an art peice, from a revered artist,
> PRICE NO limit, excellence of quality no limit, and in any media you wanted
> (Either just a glorious exhaltation of transhumanism, or something later to
> be used as a sketch perhaps for your uploaded artificial reality) - what kind
> of art would it be?

1) "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas R. Hofstadter
2) "Separate Ways" by Journey or "Take On Me" by Aha... something
similar.
3) Non-existent: "Algernon's Law" by Orson Scott Card in his prime.

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