Fictional machine intelligence

[Massive Quasars]

John Henry: .... The human brain is an amazing computer. It's raw clock speed is 20 billion calculations per second. It's storage is functionally infinite, but it's flawed.
Ellison: How's that?
John Henry: There's nowhere to download it when you die.



Apt, if embellished.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

Your obsession with preserving your consciousness after death I think has as much to do with the natural fear of an end as it does some sort of self loathing regarding your fat, virginal, poo-pants body.

p.s. how are your Chicago school of economics friends faring these days?

[seremtan]

"fat, virginal, poo-pants body"

lmao

[Massive Quasars]

There's nothing to fear in death. The prospect in life is something I take to be avoided because it ends the pursuit of ends (goals); something I find desirable. Extreme odds here don't change my preference.

Live, work, study, interact. Largely prototypical with a particular bias against overtly riskier endeavors.

Thanks.

[Massive Quasars]