Whenever somebody says "cloud" all I think is "mainframe with graphics."

Are there any other one time mainframe programmers this happens to?
Younger people might think it is a novel idea, move everything to a
data center.  So what?

On 12/12/14, Ben Goertzel via AGI <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Samantha Atkins via AGI
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> If my being was very dependent on computation then I would want back up
>>> and fail safe system and redundant ones unlikely to all get taken out by
>>> a local mishap.
>>
>> I ran a simulation of your mind living in paradise for a million
>> years.
>
> FIRST OF ALL, WHERE'S THE PROOF??!!
>
>
>> Since it already happened, there is no chance of being
>> accidentally deleted. Would you like to shoot yourself now to complete
>> the upload?
>>
>> Think about why you don't want to die. You receive a steady stream of
>> positive reinforcement every time you perceive, think, or do
>> something, and it gets written to episodic memory. This conditioning
>> is good for your reproductive fitness, but it also bends the way your
>> brain thinks about itself.
>>
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> progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
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