[ExI] text singularity

[William Flynn Wallace]

Pondering the meaning of life has wasted more time in human history than
sex, violence, foraging, killing something, or anything else.  If you could
program people not to ever think of the question, would you do it?  bill w

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 6:22 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Gadersd via extropy-chat
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> >…Answers don’t matter unless there is someone to care about the answers.
> Maybe the machines will just do the job but not really care about what is
> accomplished. If the machines could be proven to care on an emotional level
> then that would be a different story… Gadersd
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> Ja.  There might still be people, even if they have nothing to do.
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> One might suppose answers don’t need to matter.  We need not suppose that
> there would be no one to care.  We can suppose that in the future, we need
> not do anything about anything, because we cannot.
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> When you think about it, for most of human history, people cared about
> stuff but couldn’t do anything about it.  We could go back into that mode,
> where we care, but cannot do.
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> We can still have existential crises, however.  Let’s see software do
> THAT.  Heh.  We can ponder the meaning of life WAY better than some
> software which doesn’t even have life.
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