[ExI] Favorite ~H+ Movies
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
sentience at pobox.com
Sat Jun 23 06:34:28 UTC 2007
Russell Wallace wrote:
> On 6/23/07, *Eliezer S. Yudkowsky* <sentience at pobox.com
> <mailto:sentience at pobox.com>> wrote:
>
> No one did that except Xellos. Certainly not Ms. Existential Risk.
>
> Didn't she? I thought she reacted about as well as could have been. Of
> course, she didn't blind herself with the magic deathseeking words
> "Existential Risk". If she had, humanity in that universe would be
> extinct right now.
Season 3's use was reasonable. Season 2... no, I'm sorry, your
boyfriend's life does not weigh reasonably against the entire planet.
> Oh, and: Geneshaft. It wasn't very good, but it seemed detectably
> transhumanist-themed
>
> Okay, haven't read either of those.
Geneshaft's an anime. *Lots* of books more transhumanist than Geneshaft.
My girlfriend Erin would add "Ghost in the Shell" and she'd be dead
right, come to think of it.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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