I must admit that I was surprised by just how severely this posting got downvoted. It is always dangerous to mix playfulness with discussion of serious and important issues. My examples of the products of human culture which someone or something might wish to preserve for eternity apparently pushed some buttons here in this community of rationalists.

Back around the year 1800, Napoleon invaded Egypt, carrying in his train a collection of scientific folks that considered themselves version 1.0 rationalists. This contact of enlightenment with antiquity led to a Western fascination with things Egyptian which lasted roughly two centuries before it degenerated into Laura Croft and sharpened razor blades. But it did lead the French, and later the British to disassemble and transport to their own capitals examples of one of the more bizarre aspects of ancient Egyptian monumental architecture. Obelisks.

Of course, we rationalist Americans saw the opportunity to show our superiority over the "old world". We didn't steal an authentic ancient Egyptian obelisk to decorate our capital city. We built a newer, bigger, and better one! Yep, we're Americans. Anything anyone else can do, we can do better. Same applies to our FAIs. They won't fall into the fallacy of "authenticity". Show them a romance novel, or a stupid joke, or a schmaltzy photograph and they will build something better themselves. Not bodice rippers, but corset-slicing scalpels. Not moron jokes, but jokes about rocks. Not kittens playing with balls of yarn, but sentient crickets playing baseball.

I cannot be the only person here who thinks there is some value in preserving things simply to preserve them - things like endangered species, human languages, and aspects of human culture. It it really so insane to think that we could instill the same respect-for-the-authentic-but-less-than-perfect in a machine that we create?