katydee comments on Help! Name suggestions needed for Rationality-Inst! - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 January 2012 02:24AM

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Comment author: Multiheaded 28 January 2012 03:41:52PM *  7 points [-]

Connotations:

11: The AI dissolves the physical and psychological borders that separate people from one another and sucks up all their souls into a gigantic swirly red sphere in low Earth orbit.

-from the Friendly AI Critical Failure Table

More like it dissolves the question of identity in this case, amirite?

Comment author: katydee 28 January 2012 05:19:14PM 2 points [-]

Snerk. I hadn't even thought of that connotation. I can't decide if I like the name more or less now!

Comment author: [deleted] 29 January 2012 02:42:26PM 0 points [-]

Definitely more for me, and its a good name anyway.