On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:33 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10 June 2015 at 11:15, Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From a quantum immortality perspective, I think if a superintelligence >> was merging lots of intelligences, including yours, you find yourself in >> increasingly unlikely situations where you were able to escape being merged >> with the superintelligence. Eventually, against all odds, you might be the >> only non-integrated intelligence left. >> >> Yes, that does seem possible. It would imply that closest continuers of > you could never be the versions within the "Cloud" - an alternative might > be that the superintelligence starts off new arrivals with full autonomy > inside a virtual world indistinguishable from their previous existence, and > only gradually allow them to merge into the Overmind ... maybe giving them > tests to check if they are ready to do so yet. > > But that would be a cul-de-sac if eventually the superintelligence reaps all individual consciousnesses.
> (Which may or may not involve being able to recite the Quran :-) > > lol, the religious parallels are many. The superintelligence is a sort of ego dissolution into the Void. Terren > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
