Re: Failure of AI a prediction of Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age"

From: Samael (samael@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Tue Dec 22 1998 - 03:29:34 MST

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From: mark@unicorn.com <mark@unicorn.com>

>P.S. I don't believe in FTL or expansionist extraterrestrial sentient life;
>does that make me "unextropian"?

The second bit intrigues me.

Do you mean that you believe that any sentient extraterrestial life we
encounter will have progessed technologically beyond the need for physical
expansion, or som,ething else?

samael

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