Re: Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 18:01:59 MDT

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    --- Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
    > A bit more transhumanist variants:
    >
    >
    > Vernor Vinge:
    >
    > The chicken crossed the road at exponential speed, and there is
    > nothing we can say about the conditions on the other side from
    > this side.

    I'd say he was accelerating exponentially, such that by the time he
    reached the other shoulder, his velocity could not be accurately
    measured in this frame of reference.

    >
    >
    > Bill Joy:
    >
    > The threats posed by autonomous chickens crossing roads are so
    > enormous, so frightening, that we need to relinquish poultry and
    > create a global ban on poultry research.
    >
    >
    > Olaf Stapledon:
    >
    > Because the chicken felt the first stirrings of an inner
    > spiritual yearning to evolve towards a planetary chicken, and
    > beyond that a galactic chicken.
    >
    >
    > David Zindell:
    >
    > Within all chickens there is an awareness of roads, and the
    > desire to cross them. A memory left there by the Ieldra of the
    > past and resonating with the future mainbrains and the life
    > blossoming across the galaxies of the Virgo supercluster and
    > beyond, a golden metaphor of the evolutionary bridging of the
    > gulf between animal and god. But how many chickens actually
    > fully remember this awareness coded into their DNA, make the
    > decision to fulfill these desires and dare to become that single
    > destinied chicken crossing the road?
    >
    > Anders Sandberg:
    >
    > To get away from finishing his thesis.

    Sasha Chislenko:

    The chicken heard there was a super rave party somewhere on the other
    side, and sent an intelligent agent to search out the best route and
    negotiate a market optimal cover charge.

    Robert Bradbury:

    It was escaping from a) the grey goo, b) a DNA sequencer, and c) a
    Borgian chicken uploader called The Coop. "You will be eggsimmilated.
    Eggsistence is futile, We are The Coop."

    Mike Lorrey:

    It was running from my caveman diet... he he, he he, he he....
    heeeeerrrr chicken chicken chicken....

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    Mike Lorrey
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