Re: Tragedy and Boredom was Re: Why just simulation? (fwd)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Mar 18 2001 - 14:50:09 MST


Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> Nor do I believe that the answer to the possibility
> of eternal boredom is simply to engineer the experience away!

I certainly wouldn't want to live in a universe where antiboredom
engineering is necessary, just as I want to live in a universe where there
are better things to do than relive Robert Bradbury's life (no offense),
but I try to keep an open mind. You never know.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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