Re: Transhuman Media: The Life of Matrioshka Brian

From: Simon McClenahan (SMcClenahan@ATTBI.com)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 11:53:05 MST


----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Hales" <colin@versalog.com.au>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 12:37 AM
Subject: RE: Transhuman Media: The Life of Matrioshka Brian

> Brian co-opts the die machine to consruct a corporeal cot from
> which to feel the universe. Ve accidentally makes the first generation
> computrionium and 10,000 generations later (the next morning) ve finds ve
> has caused the singularity and becomes a VNAI (very naughty AI).

Paraphrasing Monty Python's Life of Brian, Brian is not the Messiah, he's
just a Very Naughty AI!

And now for something completely different ...

cheers,
    Simon



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