Re: virus: Aristotle was a Memetician and Plato a Quantum Physicist.

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Sat, 15 Jun 1996 16:47:02 -0500


Chitren Nursinghdass wrote:

> >This all keeps coming back to my orginal journey: "to travel is better
> >than to arrive". Learning is better than static knowledge. It's not
> >what you know, it's what you do with it.
> >
> >ERiC, M.V. (hehehe)
>
> And when what you do with it is help yourself learn faster while at the same
> time teaching others, then you're helping the world to evolve faster
> towards peace.

Using intelligence to enhanse intelligence is a really cool idea. I
think it was here I first came across the "singularity" in computer
"intelligence". Neat stuff.

http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html

But now: evolving towards /peace/? I'd be tempted to say "truth" except
that I know now no "fundamental" truth is actually possible. Still, we
can head towards a goal without ever reaching it, right?

ERiC