Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

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On the morning of his upload, he signed transfer papers, redundancy protocols, continuity covenants, and one handwritten page that no lawyer saw. Source
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The Tragedy of Eukaryote Evolution

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Think of all the frustrated longings, misunderstandings, jealousy, and more entailed by the fact that males and females constitute separate genders. Source
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