Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention

Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by terhechte on Thursday September 10, 2015 @03:31PM (#10200048)

Interestingly, in his book 'Golem XIV' [1] Lem creates an actual example scenario of a future where mankind managed to create an AI far superior to us only to find that said AI is not even remotely interested in playing war games for military generals and instead just holds long lectures about humanity. So it is a bit like a simplified, more approachable, version of the 'Summa Technologise' mentioned in the article. I recommend that book; it is a great read.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV

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Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by ajuc on Friday September 11, 2015 @04:09AM (#10202517)

Summa has like 100 different subjects, it's 500 pages, and much denser than his fiction books. AI is just one of the topics.

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Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by soperj on Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:01PM (#10200229)

I always wonder if you were able to resurrect someone's brain in a computer if that "person" would be interested enough to even stay alive.

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Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by natosaichek on Thursday September 10, 2015 @07:39PM (#10201209)

Here's a soild SF book that deals a fair bit with that question:

http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PERMUTATION/Permuta...

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Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by golergka on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:39PM (#10200729)

> if that "person" would be interested enough to even stay alive

If you "ressurect" someone's brain, it should behave like the person behaved when it was alive — and people usually prefer being alive to being dead.

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Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by mattdw on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:56PM (#10201941)

But with a completely different set of sensory input, and under a whole different set of constraints.

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Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by lotsofcows on Friday September 11, 2015 @05:57AM (#10202841)

Your brain is not you. If you resurrected an entire body, whether virtually or otherwise, with all the the myriad microorganisms, etc that implies, it should behave like the person behaved when it was alive.

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Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by gadrfgaesgysd on Thursday September 10, 2015 @07:29PM (#10201178)

Do you know where can I get the English version?

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Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by aflinik on Friday September 11, 2015 @03:05AM (#10202350)

It's included in this collection: http://www.amazon.com/Imaginary-Magnitude-Stanislaw-Lem/dp/0...

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Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by falsedan on Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:57PM (#10200521)

Golem XIV was mentioned in the article.

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