First, make sure you see a psychiatrist. On Wednesday, 7 May 2025 at 14:07:20 UTC+3 John Clark wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM 'spudb...@aol.com' via Everything List < > everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > *> Maybe this is the answer to Fermi's paradox? No sane AI's, no >> technological progression to the stars? * >> > > *It does give food for thought because, at least in humans, there does > seem to be a relationship between genius and madness. Insanity is an > occupational hazard for pure mathematicians, especially great pure > mathematicians. The Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash (of > "Beautiful Mind" fame) was a mathematical prodigy but became completely > incapacitated by schizophrenia when he was about 30. He had two sons, one > of them demonstrated profound mathematical ability at an absurdly young age > but he also became completely incapacitated by schizophrenia at an even > earlier age than his father had, while he was still a teenager. His other > son only had average intelligence but never had any sign of mental illness, > he became a registered emergency room nurse and as far as I can tell had a > happy life. * > > *Maybe we need computer psychiatrists, I don't mean computers that are > psychiatrists, I mean humans who have computers as their patients. * > > *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* > 4os > > > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b048fbf9-cd5e-4d1f-a9d5-3f194a0975fen%40googlegroups.com.
