From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 17:13:20 MST
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> Yes. But the problem of not being good at accepting one's body is
> nontrivial even if you can switch bodies as easily as clothing. Why does
> everybody else seem happier/cooler/more posthuman than me? Being told
> that the issue is psychological doesn't truly help, one needs to develop
> one's own body philosophy.
Well, if you didn't *want* to be distressed by the thought of other
entities being cooler than you are, I would diagnose mental dysmorphic
disorder, dissatisfaction with one's own cognitive processes. Today, of
course, this is a very odd state of affairs; but it was common, even
universal, during the brief era of non-recursively-self-improving
intelligence.
And if you tell me that I ought to accept my mind the way it is, I'm going
to laugh like hell, then go back to fretting about not being a perfect
Bayesian reasoner.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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