From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Dec 02 1999 - 15:50:54 MST
Joseph Sterlynne wrote:
>
> > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
>
> >As long as everyone's posting Monty Pythons, I figured, what the heck.
>
> Well, it only makes sense that we do. Not only do we love Monty Python
> but---you must realize---they truly understood the singularity. I think
> that the systems should be programmed so that the instant before it
> happens we hear the calm and assured voice of John Cleese:
>
> And now for something completely different.
I like this idea. Do you mind if I quote you on that, and maybe even go
ahead and actually do it?
Oh, I suppose in a dry and serious way it's quite unlikely that the
course and morality of uploading will be so predetermined as to create
an instantaneous technorapture transcendence, while still giving us
humans enough latitute to preprogram the announcement we'll hear
beforehand. But in this unlikely event, I vote for: "And now for
something completely different" as the phrase we'll hear in the instant
before the Introdus nanomachines arrive. It could be an Easter egg in
the goal suggestions.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://pobox.com/~sentience/tmol-faq/meaningoflife.html
Running on BeOS Typing in Dvorak Programming with Patterns
Voting for Libertarians Heading for Singularity There Is A Better Way
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