Jiri Jelinek wrote:
Let's go to an extreme: Imagine being an immortal idiot.. No matter
what you do & how hard you try, the others will be always so much
better in everything that you will eventually become totally
discouraged or even afraid to "touch" anything because it would just
always demonstrate your relative stupidity (/limitations) in some way.
What a life. Suddenly, there is this amazing pleasure machine as a new
god-like-style of living for poor creatures like you. What do you do?
Jiri,
Is this really what you *want*?
Out of all the infinite possibilities, this is the world in which you
would most want to live?
--
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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