Re: gods, AI and the human ego.

m (mt_2@yahoo.com)
Tue, 3 Aug 1999 22:34:35 -0700 (PDT)

(someone) wrote:
[...]
> > If you
> > really are God, you have near infinite powers and
> can eventually do
> > any finite task no matter how big. If, for a
> relative few cents, you
> > could by the research and work required to
> recreate many of the
> > dinosaurs (along with a great expansive place to
> keep them) Wouldn't
> > you donate the few cents in relative effort to
> your overall ability no
> > matter how much you were interested in and putting
> the rest of your
> > abilities in other things?

> If you were interested in seeing these species in
> action. I'm sure
> they're not very exciting to an SI. I know ! Lets
> get a petri dish and grow
> a load of bacteria from some undiscovered primal
> pool ! yeah....look at 'em
> go.....see how they mop up all that nasty glucose!
> Not very exciting is it?
> We currently have interest in dinosaurs and stuff,
> as they're very big and
> scary - hardly a concern for an SI - it would be
> more like my petri dish
> example to them.

But even amongst different plain ol' ordinary humans, there are diffrent interests. To a biochemist, bacteria slurping up glucose *is* probably quite interesting.

How can you say that some SI would *not* be interested in a particular subject?

We might not be the most dazzling thing in the universe, but with all their brainpower, maybe there are many fields SI's would look at (including "boring" hominids).

Mike



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