Re: Uploading

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Sep 09 1997 - 17:41:26 MDT

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Eric Watt Forste wrote:
>
> Eliezer Yudkowsky writes:
> > Until someone comes up with an objective Meaning of Life,
>
> My friend Sunah Cherwin came up with this one:
>
> Q: What is the Meaning of Life?
>
> A: You're soaking in it.

I'm not getting into this again.

(For recent members, and for the record, Forste and I have a running,
acrimonious debate over whether meaning is objective or subjective. Also for
the record, my version is experimentally testable and his isn't, so there.)

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