<br>Wow, that is hilarious!!!<br><br>Someone has **got** to sneak a video camera in there, and post<br>the thing on YouTube....<br><br>If I were free any of those days I would definitely take the train up to NY<br>to check it out ;-)
<br><br>ben<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eliezer S. Yudkowsky</b> <<a href="mailto:sentience@pobox.com">sentience@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yeah.<br><br>So.<br><br>Um.<br><br>You ever have one of those days where you're, like, checking<br>Technorati to see if anyone has linked to <a href="http://singinst.org">singinst.org</a> recently, and<br>you come across a blog post which mentions that -
<br><br>- and as Buddha and Belldandy and the Flying Spaghetti Monster are my<br>witnesses, I swear that I am not making any of this up and moreover it<br>checks out and doesn't look like a joke -<br><br>- where was I? Right. So apparently there's this guy in New York
<br>whose name I can't remember ever hearing, and who doesn't seem to have<br>ever emailed me, who's written and directed a play called:<br><br>_Yudkowski Returns: The Rise And Fall And Rise Again of Dr. Eliezer
<br>Yudkowski_<br><br>"In a seemingly deserted island, Dr. Eliezer Yudkowski and his<br>artificial intelligence drones and cohorts wage a war to keep their<br>circular narrative from ending. Their only weapon? The hope that
<br>humanity can finally evolve. (90 min)"<br><br>Written and directed by Bob Saietta (possibly a.k.a. Bobby Silverman).<br><br>This has already had one run and is being brought back for another, at<br>something called "The Pretentious Festival" at the Brick Theater in
<br>Brooklyn, NY:<br><br><a href="http://www.bricktheater.com/pretentious/">http://www.bricktheater.com/pretentious/</a><br><br>If you're going to be in New York on:<br><br>Tue 7/24 8pm<br>Tue 7/26 7:30pm<br>Sat 7/28 3pm
<br>Sat 7/28 9pm<br>Sun 7/29 3pm<br><br>You can buy tickets for $10:<br><br><a href="http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/section/synopsis/show/133057">http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/section/synopsis/show/133057
</a><br><br>*<br><br>Yudkowski Returns!<br>reviewed by Robert Weinstein<br><br>Dr. Eliezer Yudkowski, the lead character in Yudkowski Returns (The<br>Rise And Fall And Rise Again Of Dr. Eliezer Yudkowski) wishes he were<br>
Japanese. He sits at a desk scattered with seemingly random<br>paraphernalia, downloads episodes of Lost and analyzes the homoerotic<br>subtext of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He orders Chinese food. He puts<br>on his Psycho-Sociological Hat, dances around the theatre and leaps
<br>into the narcissistic void of his psyche created by a recent breakup.<br>He restages significant moments while putting others in newfound<br>contexts depending on his ability to understand them. And he is not alone.<br>
<br>He has the audience, whom he addresses frequently and with a<br>plastered-on smile, and he has The Assistant, a friendly, disheveled,<br>and increasingly confused woman who is at different times his<br>girlfriend, his girlfriend-as-ex, his confidante, and his conscience.
<br>Is she real? I'm not confident Dr. Yudkowski knows. But their<br>isolation—his voluntary, hers more problematic—creates an incredibly<br>complex relationship which plays out as they wait on the appearance of<br>The Singularity, an Artificial Intelligence technology that can solve
<br>all of life's unsolvable problems. It makes sense of the nonsensical<br>and will bring an end to all of humanity's conflicts as well as Dr.<br>Yudkowski's isolation and, quite possibly, The Assistant's existence.
<br><br>[ Continued at:<br> <a href="http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/P07rev_02.htm#400">http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/P07rev_02.htm#400</a><br><br>*<br><br>Apparently I'm played by Patrick McCaffrey:<br><br>
"A charming assistant introduces the entrance of (cue the cheesy<br>music...) Doctor Yudkowski, played by Patrick, who exudes all the<br>charisma and appeal that Tom Cruise should have had in _Magnolia_."<br><br>
That was from the original blog post I found, at:<br><a href="http://tba-ny.blogspot.com/2007/07/bobby-silverman-my-nemesis-where-has.html">http://tba-ny.blogspot.com/2007/07/bobby-silverman-my-nemesis-where-has.html</a><br>
<br>I know what you're all wondering: "How does Eliezer look in the<br>director's vision of what his life *should* be like?" Apparently I<br>look like this:<br><br><a href="http://www.amrep.org/people/patrick.html">
http://www.amrep.org/people/patrick.html</a><br><br>*<br><br>Since no one had the courtesy to notify me that a play had been<br>produced about my life - and possibly Erin's, though I don't know if<br>The Assistant is based on her - if anyone in New York goes to this, do
<br>please bring back some photos. Though it would probably appeal more<br>to the taste of my enemies than my friends, unless you have a very<br>liberal sense of humor.<br><br>I used to describe myself as a D-list celebrity. But I guess that
<br>when they produce a play about your life, with your name in the title,<br>and they don't bother to tell you, it means you've officially been<br>promoted to a C-list celebrity. I think next I'm supposed to release
<br>a sex tape of myself or something - no wait, that's how you go from<br>the B-list to the A-list.<br><br>It's been a very surreal day.<br><br>--<br>Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <a href="http://singinst.org/">
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