Re: The Meaning That Immortality Gives to Life

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 17:21:09 MDT


Bryan Bishop wrote:
>
> Thoughts? I am still interested in coming up with an information
> theoretic proof of the (lack of?) inevitability of boredom, i.e. to
> show that there is in fact a way to always have something new to work
> with for some definition of 'new'. (Some already claim "there is
> nothing new under the sun.")

I long ago took a potshot at this at
http://yudkowsky.net/essays/funtheory.html

Needs updating, though.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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