Re: Why would AI want to be friendly?

From: Emlyn O'Regan (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Fri Sep 08 2000 - 10:16:53 MDT


> So, there you are with countless people around the world.
> Here I am with a million gods.
> Do the words "resistance is futile" mean anything to you?
>
> --J. R.
>

Appeasement is even more futile.

>
> "Government big enough to supply everything
> you need is big enough to take everything you
> have ... The course of history shows that as a
> government grows, liberty decreases."
> - Thomas Jefferson
>

It's a bit late to be harping on about Liberty, JR. I've always said that if
God turned out to exist in the classical western sense (improbable), then
I'd be first to join the underground resistance. So too with your million SI
gods. Better to die on your feet, than to die on your knees.

Emlyn



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