On 7/29/2020 6:36 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 7:58 PM Lawrence Crowell <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:\/> This is something that is not likely. What would be the point of this?/That's like asking what's the point of life. I prefer existence over oblivion because that's the way my mind is wired. And my brain is wired that way because of inheritance; if one of my ancestors didn't prefer existence over nonexistence then he or she wouldn't be an ancestor. And an AI that didn't prefer existence over oblivion wouldn't be around for very long./> The purpose of technology is to alleviate drudgery, to transport, to learn things about the world, or to increase information that is accessible to us humans./There is no way you could outsmart something that is smarter than you are, so we won't be able to order it around, so humans will have their agenda and a Jupiter Brain will have its own, and those two agendas may or may not be compatible; In fact I'd say if it turns out that cryonics doesn't work that would be my best guess as to why it was unsuccessful. So even if I embrace cryonics I may still face oblivion, but if I don't embrace cryonics I will certainly face oblivion. I think the logical choice is obvious.
It's not obvious because there are things worse than oblivion. Brent -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ecd751a0-9764-6558-3285-05799efb4c52%40verizon.net.
