Re: The mistake of agriculture

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 04:24:54 MDT

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    spike66@attbi.com wrote:
    >
    >>I'm reminded of the old truth that "money does not buy happiness...
    >>-gts
    >
    > I have heard this all my life, but it's never had the
    > ring of truth to it. Not only can money buy happiness,
    > it isn't even particularly expensive any more. A few
    > hundred bucks can get a few hundred megabytes at over
    > a couple gigahertz these days.

    But you're equating happiness to just RAM and CPU! Many modern
    philosophies insist that there is more to happiness than this. There have
    been studies showing, for example, that even when people win enormous
    amounts of RAM and CPU in the lottery, they have the same level of
    happiness a year later. The real secret to happiness is memory bandwidth. 

    -- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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