From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 17:19:30 MDT
owner-extropians@extropy.org wrote:
> --- "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Damien Sullivan wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 , Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "The Daleks had Davros, the Berserkers had Goodlife, and now the
>>>> Singularity has Yudkowsky." -- Steve
>>>
>>> So how many of us, in reading or watching some science fiction,
>>> have rooted for the AIs, or at least been sympathetic to them?
>>> I guess the same question could be asked about aliens as well;
>>> there was a basic coolness to the changelings of the Dominion
>>> of Deep Space 9. Immortal, able to impersonate a genius,
>>> apparently able to violate conservation laws...
>>
>> Which AIs? There's far more room inside the word "AI" than there is
>> inside the word "human". Of course, everything you see in SF is
>> neither AI nor human but a human fiction, which is an entirely
>> distinct third category...
>
> Putting aside comical comments about Dominionites hunting out of
> season or bagging more than their limit, or even killing endangered
> species, I ask the list: Who is your favorite AI?
### Rhadamanthus.
Rafal
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