Edited by author 08-13-2003 08:12 PM
I once got cornered by an over-the-top extropian who explained that once they've turned all the matter in the solar system into processing units, they'd use the phenomenal computing power available to do mix-and-match pattern matching of scanned-in images of the ice-damaged fragments of frozen brains until a simulation of the resulting neural net produced a coherent personality.

I suggested that the future AI software people would probably rather use all that processing power to run MUDs.

Then I ran away.