First, make sure you see a psychiatrist. On Wednesday, 7 May 2025 at 14:07:20 UTC+3 John Clark wrote:
> 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/b048fbf9-cd5e-4d1f-a9d5-3f194a0975fen%40googlegroups.com.
