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"I can't give you the interview you've been begging for, but at least I can now explain how I was able to change fields and accomplish so much in such a short time." It's not very often I stop reading HN-submitted article after the first sentence. ;) Do we really need more Stallman here?
Fascinating story. The story's narrator is supposed to be a woman, but the story has an unmistakably male voice. I can't pinpoint it exactly, but everyone I know who talks like that is male. Part of it may be that there is no discussion of her emotions at all, she sounds like a perfectly rational robot. Also, considering the impact of voluntary ovulation and superior intelligence on reproductive fitness, I suspect ev…
Not with millions-soon-billions of super-intelligent people running around with the capacity to choose to fix that. Evolution will be dominated by human intelligence and intention at that point. It'll still exist, but, well, essentially the story is a Singularity story and we can't predict what will happen past the end of it.
I'm not sure the three wishes chosen are the best possible. Obviously, ``Five more wishes, please.'' Would be nice, but the Jinn obviously would have refused. Something that would have broken entropy would have been nice, though. A battery that can give infinite current... A spaceship would also have been a good choice.
Fascinating story. The story's narrator is supposed to be a woman, but the story has an unmistakably male voice. I can't pinpoint it exactly, but everyone I know who talks like that is male. Part of it may be that there is no discussion of her emotions at all, she sounds like a perfectly rational robot. Also, considering the impact of voluntary ovulation and superior intelligence on reproductive fitness, I suspect ev…
The question that this story raises is "Can we solve these hard problems of aging, thinking, and feeling if we had intelligence far greater than we do today?" Are we meant to read the narrator's idea that they can even solve the problems of aging and diseases and voluntary ovulation through science and intelligence as naive or inevitable? Just because we can imagine a virus or a team of super smart people solving the…
"I can't give you the interview you've been begging for, but at least I can now explain how I was able to change fields and accomplish so much in such a short time." It's not very often I stop reading HN-submitted article after the first sentence. ;) Do we really need more Stallman here?
Oh yeah? So I'm modding you down without reading your comment. Neener-neener.
Two: Assuming you did downmod his comment without reading it, you're exhibiting arbitrary behavior in a community of mostly reasonable and logical people. Perhaps this isn't the best place for you.
Concerning the ethical statements (selfishness is foolish and will lead to disaster) of the jinn, it might be interesting to see a jinn story about an altruist that gets 3 wishes and how those lead to disaster. Of course, real-life history is full of that.