On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM '[email protected]' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
*> Maybe this is the answer to Fermi's paradox? No sane AI's, no > technological progression to the stars? * > *It does give food for thought because, at least in humans, there does seem to be a relationship between genius and madness. Insanity is an occupational hazard for pure mathematicians, especially great pure mathematicians. The Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash (of "Beautiful Mind" fame) was a mathematical prodigy but became completely incapacitated by schizophrenia when he was about 30. He had two sons, one of them demonstrated profound mathematical ability at an absurdly young age but he also became completely incapacitated by schizophrenia at an even earlier age than his father had, while he was still a teenager. His other son only had average intelligence but never had any sign of mental illness, he became a registered emergency room nurse and as far as I can tell had a happy life. * *Maybe we need computer psychiatrists, I don't mean computers that are psychiatrists, I mean humans who have computers as their patients. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 4os -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3%2B2pGykAZzKTrmry1rCK0gurz16EwKe3jCEi1rcd7_aQ%40mail.gmail.com.
