From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 11:34:29 MDT
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 08:42:17AM -0400, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Someone actually *called* me goodlife once.
>
> "The Daleks had Davros, the Berserkers had Goodlife, and now the
> Singularity has Yudkowsky."
> -- Steve
So how many of us, in reading or watching some science fiction, have rooted
for the AIs, or at least been sympathetic to them? I guess the same question
could be asked about aliens as well; there was a basic coolness to the
changelings of the Dominion of Deep Space 9. Immortal, able to impersonate a
genius, apparently able to violate conservation laws...
-xx- Damien X-)
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