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SL4: RE: Static uploading is SL3 (was: the 69 of us)

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> > First: I don't think that insanity has to do with thinking fast > or thinking > > slowly -- if so, why > > do intelligent people go nuts just as often as stupid people? > > My instinctive response is to say "They don't", after which we > could try to > look up the statistics... but that really wouldn't settle anything. According to the statistics I have seen (when I was a psychology professor a few years ago), incidence of mental illness is not significantly correlated with intelligence Of course the measurements of intelligence and mental illness are both moderately problematic, but still, the result is not meaningless... > The essential argument here is that a transhuman can *occupy* > such a state, > but ve is unlikely to *reach* such a state. The transhuman would see it > coming; if ve didn't see it coming, there would be early warning signs, > flashing red lights on the exoself console, and so on. Before a > transhuman > can reach such a state, ve would need to first need to d

From: Ben Goertzel (ben@webmind.com) Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 14:56:58 MST Next message: Ben Goertzel: "RE: Individualism in Transhuman Society." Previous message: Alexandre Owen Muniz: "Individualism in Transhuman Society." In reply to: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky: "Re: Static uploading is SL3 (was: the 69 of us)" Next in thread: Ben Goertzel: "Cosmic insanity" Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] hi, > > First: I don't think that insanity has to do with thinking fast > or thinking > > slowly -- if so, why > > do intelligent people go nuts just as…

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