From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 13:51:30 MDT
owner-extropians@extropy.org wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:06:47AM -0700, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>> Anders wrote:
>>
>>> Other honorable mentions: Ratio of Damien's _The White Abacus_,
>>> Colossus in _The Forbin Project_ and Yatima in Egan's _Diaspora_.
>>>
>> ### Interesting you mention Yatima. Of course you are right in
>> classifying it as an AI, we all read the description of its creation
>> by the polis, but I had a strong sense of humanity in this being. He
>> had passion, stupid ideas, and eventually messed himself up pretty
>> bad, which are features and outcomes we tend to expect from humans.
>> It's very good of Egan to show the world from the viewpoint of an
>> independently developing AI maintaining a human (but not primitively
>> anthropomorphic) side.
>
> Hmm, are you thinking of Inoshiro? Of course, one could argue
> that Yatima ends up in a situation just as sticky as Inoshiro's
> although just as freely chosen.
### This eternity of Yatima's lone existence somewhere billions and billions
of universes away looked as alien to me as Inoshiro's choice of a closed
outlook. Either way, no personal growth. Yatima shared my will to understand
but not the will to grow. I like the idea of understanding mathematics, yes,
and then I want to do something fun with it, like building new universes, or
new, improved versions of myselves.
Rafal
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