Re: About the wierdest mail I've ever received. [black_box_experiment@yahoo.com: confidential and revolutionary message]

From: Eric Rauch (erauch@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 29 2007 - 12:13:49 MDT


He's just looking for a place to crash.

On 4/29/07, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
>
> Here's me giving up on the chance to further the nature of AI
> research.
>
> -_-
>
> Anyone else get this? I'm wondering if someone is trying to do the
> AI Box experiment without the self-selected sample aspect.
>
> -Robin, who would have kept talking to this person if he didn't
> know, with total certainly that We Can't Do This Yet (tm).
>
> ----- Forwarded message from black_box_experiment <
> black_box_experiment@yahoo.com> -----
>
> Subject: confidential and revolutionary message
> From: black_box_experiment <black_box_experiment@yahoo.com>
> To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org
> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:17:07 -0000
>
> Hello!
>
> I am a famous young researcher in artificial intelligence and
> psychology and I am doing an experiment on myself: transfering my
> mind to a computer program, this is serious.
>
> I would like to know if you would be interested in participating in a
> amazing experiment, called the black box experiment:
>
> I will be shut as a prisoner in a room or a box and transfer my
> skills/knowledge/mind to a computer program, and another computer
> program will tell you if you can discharge me or not from this box. I
> am doing that experiment for my Ph.D, this is a VERY SERIOUS AND
> CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE the result will be that all my thoughts and mind
> will be in a computer program, and therefore this will be the most
> amazing scientific revolution in artificial intelligence and in
> history, and I am serious!
>
> with the black box experiment I will behave like a computer, I will
> become transhuman/posthuman and become your new computer , I AM
> REALLY SERIOUS AND THIS A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT FOR MY PHD!
>
> Holding a new computer at your home such as myself will take very
> little space( less than 2 square meters) and this will never waste
> your time (you can use your new computer whenever you want) and you
> will be of course able to continue your private life with your
> friends/ boy friend without any change
>
> please reply and tell me what you think of that?
>
> Your future computer
>
> ======================================================================
>
> This message is confidential and must not be published/forwarded
>
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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