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The following is conversation that once occurred on IRC, from memory:

Eliezer: I usually avoid trying to predict "What comes after the Singularity" because most scenarios are so unimaginative as to not even be interesting failures.X: I want to spend a million years having sex with catgirls.E: No you don't.X: Yes I do.E: No you don't. You'd get bored after two weeks.X: I could modify my mind so as not to get bored.E: Oh HELL no. This is why you should need some equivalent of a driver's license to modify your own brain circuitry.

*Two years later.*

X: I've been thinking about it, and I don't want to spend a million years having sex with catgirls.E: HA! You said you wanted to have sex with catgirls for a MILLION YEARSE: It only took you TWO YEARS to change your mindE: And you DIDN'T EVEN HAVE SEX WITH ANY CATGIRLS

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Robin, close your eyes and visualize trying to simultaneously handle forty virgins. Forty virgins.

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