RE: Boredom and uploading

Weslake, Brad BG (Weslake.Brad.BG@bhp.com.au)
Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:37:45 +1100


You're not thinking of Douglas Adams' paranoid android, Marvin?

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> From: byteboy[SMTP:byteboy@simons-rock.edu]
> Reply To: extropians@extropy.com
> Sent: Saturday, 3 January 1998 2:04
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: Boredom and uploading
>
> This line of thought reminds me of a short story I read... Can't
> remember if
> it was by Asimov or Phillip K. Dick or Rudy Rucker or someone else
> along
> those lines, but it was about an evolutionary robot/computer that
> knew
> everything and was to be immortal - and turned out in the end to be
> suicidal. I can't quite remember the exact details... maybe someone
> else
> can fill this is for me...
>
> -byteboy
> http://www.teknopia.org
>
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