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Fictional machine intelligence
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:54 pm
by 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.
Re: Fictional machine intelligence
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:08 am
by 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?

Re: Fictional machine intelligence
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:38 am
by seremtan
"fat, virginal, poo-pants body"
lmao
Re: Fictional machine intelligence
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:12 am
by 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.
Re: Fictional machine intelligence
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:41 am
by Massive Quasars