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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>ablainey@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:31
AM<BR><B>To:</B> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ExI]
outloading, was: stealth singularity<BR><BR></FONT></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>I don't know if Outloading has been taken,
but your scenario is almost the exact plot of the Odyssey 5 TV series by
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color=#0000ff> .. ablainey</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face=Arial>Cool. From Wiki, looks like Odyssey 5 was mostly a
Canada thing, with episodes on Showtime. I never had Showtime,
never heard of Odyssey 5 until you cited it. Good eye,
Al!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face=Arial>I suppose the idea of outloading is obvious, and is likely in
the SF literature all over the place independently. Perhaps Damien knows,
he being one of the foremost local experts in the genre.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face=Arial>With the notion of outloading, the motive for the outloads
keeping us in carbon form (at their own expense in a sense) is not really in
sympathy with us, but rather in a desire to learn from us. Humans have
little sympathy for bugs (well, I do, but normal humans not so
much). Humans definitely demonstrate sympathy for birds however,
and go to great lengths to watch and protect them. So the outloading
notion rests on the idea that humans in carbon form are analogous to birds, and
continue to be able to do some interesting things that the AI cannot do, but
wants to understand.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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