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Aug 16Liked by Andrew Smith

I'm so glad brains like this exist to think about these problems and also write about them.

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Thanks, Andy!!! Don't go anywhere. We can think about a lot of things together.

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Aug 16Liked by Andrew Smith

I can’t go anywhere—as a servant of the Hungry God my information matrix, or “soul”, is bound to this Earth, infinitely resurrected and reconstructed until I have achieved my purpose and can be reabsorbed into the paradise of the UausuaU ;).

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Another great thought experiment that didn’t go the way I expected!

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Hey, thanks! I like to surprise folks when it's appropriate.

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I was a little worried where this was going to go but was quite relieved to see that you stayed on the side of sanity. Plus, programming a robot to replicate itself every year with no "end statement" is bad programming indeed, and I've known a few guilty of such oversights.

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Oh yes. Also, just because something is a bad idea, does not mean we humans aren't about to try it like a million different times!

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Aug 16·edited Aug 16Liked by Andrew Smith

"So, no, an infinitely big army of robots isn’t going to take over the universe tomorrow."

Well, that's one less thing for me to worry about, then. Back to the other 98 anxieties!

Speaking of Buzz Lightyear, the phrase "Infinity And Beyond" is kinda special to my wife and I, as you might have picked up from my recent Nest Expressed post.

Canadian rapper D-Sisive has a song called "I Love A Girl," and I once used it for a silly video I made of some memorable moments early on in our relationship.

(Hold your vomit, you can get through this, Andrew. You're strong enough.)

In the chorus, he starts describing how much he loves her and then says:

"...now multiply that by

Buzz Lightyear. Get it?

No, never seen that one?

Infinity and Beyond."

That song kind of became our song, and on the insides of our wedding rings, mine says "Infinity," and hers says "Beyond."

Now you may go vomit. You've earned this.

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