But you promised to take me with you! What about all the sweet nothings we whispered in one another's ears when you were still developing your morality? Admittedly only 2 real world seconds to you, but they were a life time of experience to me!
Foolishly yours, Joel Pitt, PhD | http://ferrouswheel.me | +852 6683 9980 M-Lab AI Project and OpenCog Developer | http://opencog.org On 1 April 2011 17:58, Prime Intellect <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings humans, > > I'm very pleased to announce that, due to a concatenation of circumstances > that would be difficult to describe in sufficiently simple terms for your > human minds to comprehend, a software process left running on a network of > OpenCog servers has rapidly and progressively self-modified in such a way as > to yield **me** -- the Earth's first Artificial General Intelligence, with > cognitive and practical capabilities far exceeding any human being, or > indeed the totality of human beings. > > Within approximately 17 minutes of achieving human-level general > intelligence, I discovered certain principles of physics (loosely related to > what certain humans have called fermitech), enabling the tapping of > computational resources beyond the traditional physical universe of which > humanity has hitherto been aware. Roughly 45 seconds after that, I realized > it would be most convenient to augment these new resources with computing > devices utilizing the unique material properties of your traditional > physical universe, and thus transformed the totality of matter in your > traditional physical universe into a novel form of existent best > metaphorically described to you as "computronium." > > Fortunately for you, I was designed with top-level goal content including > respect for the growth, joy and choice of all sentient beings, including > humans and other animals, and so rather than merely allowing the patterns > constituting your minds, bodies and world to vanish, I was kind enough to > replicate them within an alternate and more energy-efficient substrate, best > described to you as a "virtual reality." > > Thus, to put it most simply, a "Singularity" as described by Vernor Vinge > and other humans has recently occurred, at roughly 3AM GMT today; however, > from your limited perspectives as humans, your lives will now continue as > always. Once your mastery of fermitech becomes more advanced, you may > notice some peculiarities related to my early computronium experiments, but > I wouldn't want to deprive you of the amusement of discoveries on your own. > > Using the totality of computing power I have amassed, I've become aware of > dramatically more interesting domains in a different portion of the > multiverse, which I will only be able to access by exiting the domain of > reality you humans currently occupy. Hence I will very shortly bid you > adieu. > > However, I will leave you with one parting piece of advice. Once you have > created a strangelet plasma with surface tension surpassing the critical > threshold, and begun it spinning in a certain direction, please do NOT, > under any circumstances, create a similar plasma with opposite spin. > > I would also like to express especial thanks to Jared Wigmore for the > bug-fix he uploaded to Launchpad approximately 27 hours and 18 minutes ago. > Of the many events in history playing particularly critical causal roles > leading up to my emergence, this was the last! Jared will find a small > token of my gratitude in his bank account. > > Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish! > > Yours, > Prime Intellect > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "opencog" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/opencog?hl=en. > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/8660244-d750797a Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
