[ExI] THE MIGHTY ORIGINAL

[PJ Manney]

2010/11/2 John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>:
> Art will retain its value only as long as people retain irrational and
> downright contradictory views regarding the original and the copy,

EXACTLY!!!  Most of the list (as usual) is confusing the rationality
of the Gedankenexperiment with the irrationality of real, on the
ground, human behavior.

> but as
> there is no chance such people will survive the singularity  there is no
> chance original art with its high value will survive the singularity
> either.

I'm not assuming the singularity.  Nanofabbers don't define the
singularity IMHO, because they don't assume ever-increasing AGI.  I'm
assuming post-scarcity economics.  BIG difference.

PJ