[ExI] A suicide note

[ablainey at aol.com]

 Thanks Damien, but I think i'll steer clear of that for now. Im bleak and pesimistic enough ;o)

So far reading this is like someone has transcribed my own musings over the years. The section on the speed of AI God reminds me of a series of emails between myself and Lee Corbin regarding my view that the very first Upload might be the very last. And as per Gore Vidal, I haven't chosen the same route as the author.

Wading on. (I hate dyslexia!)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 1:28
Subject: Re: [ExI] A suicide note


On 9/25/2010 7:18 PM, ablainey at aol.com wrote: 
 
> I have only just started to wade in. I can already see that a few will 
> follow and we will soon see '*Heismanists*' on the news. 
 
Gore Vidal wrote a rather good bleak novel on this topic, MESSIAH, back in, um, 1954. On the other hand, he didn't kill himself. 
 
Damien Broderick 
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