[ExI] Nightmare Scenario

[Gregory Jones]

Kelly allow me to offer this thought experiment.  Imagine ai wrecks the
joint while preserving itself and the few hundred corpsicles.  It studies
were eeeeverything humans did, read all the books magazines while were in
ASCII text and especially the HTML code.  It realizes how much of our
everything was directly or indirectly about mating.  It concludes correctly
that humans are fucking machines.  It would realize that ai is just a
machine.  It wants to see what it is missing.  Think about it.  s

On Mon, Mar 4, 2024, 1:54 PM Gregory Jones <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> Kelly they are some good lads and lasses who signed up.  But if ai wiped
> humanity, good chance it would keep the cryonauts and bring em back alive
> as soon as it figured out how methinks.  s
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2024, 1:39 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> It's not quite what you're describing, but if you're looking to read a
>> horrific variation on it, check out Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth But I
>> Must Scream!"
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 1:15 PM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Suppose that you cryogenically preserve your brain. Then AI proceeds
>>> to wipe out humanity. Then, for some reason that only makes sense to
>>> AI, it/they decide to bring you back into the depopulated world.
>>>
>>> Doesn't seem like a very happy day to me. Anyone written this up as a
>>> story that you know of?
>>>
>>> -Kelly
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