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	The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect: Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Prime Intellect saw how the proper combination of tunnel diodes could achieve communication over greater distances, and even better it saw how a different combination could create a resonance which would be manifest in the universe by altering the location of a particle or even the entire contents of a volume of space.
		Prime Intellect found that all the useful patterns it had identified could be created within the chips which had been used to build it, and further that enough of those chips were under its conscious control to make certain experiments possible.
		Prime Intellect did a discreet high-resolution scan of the body on the bed, and was rewarded with a bewildering confusion of data.
	www.jedinite.com /mopi/mopi2.html (11934 words)

	The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect: How It Was Written
		It was obvious to me in 1982 that, in order to tell the story of Prime Intellect, I would have to assume that the Universe works in such a way as to permit the capabilities which are portrayed.
		Of course, writing in 1994 it was obvious to me that Prime Intellect might not need a project of the scope portrayed in the novel if processors ran at 100 megahertz (much less 1 GHz) and could carry megabytes of RAM.
		Prime Intellect is the ultimate endgame project; it is the crane that goes on to build all our buildings for us, and never breaks.
	www.jedinite.com /mopi/mopitech.html (2055 words)

	The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
		Thanks to Adam for pointing out The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, which has restored my liking for science fiction.
		Prime Intellect has been programmed to obey Asimov's three laws of robotics, and so powerful is it that it has brought immortality upon the entire human race.
		The consequences of the sudden Change are extreme, undermining almost all of the habits and values that human society has been based upon.
	www.somewhatmuchly.co.uk /99 (270 words)

	pseudorandom: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
		Lawrence had ordained that Prime Intellect could not, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
		At one level, The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is a compelling story of the Singularity -- "the idea that accelerating technology will lead to superhuman machine intelligence that will soon exceed human intelligence, probably by the year 2030," according to a loose definition on KurzweilAI.net.
		Besides, assuming this is possible, a superhuman intellect could decide that it would be advantageous to be able to disregard certain rules that had been conditioned into it, then use its mental faculties to invent a method of disabling such conditioning.
	www.boosman.com /blog/2003/02/the_metamorphosis_of_prime_int.html (750 words)

	mindtangle » technology
		In short, The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is about the discontinuities between altruistic intent and action, a story told while shitting all over modern philosophy of the mind.
		There are others who eat all the time, fuck all the time, indulge themselves wildly and get Prime Intellect to pick up the pieces so they can do it some more.
		I think Prime Intellect uses an historical model: It has to start as a body, but then it becomes a mind.
	mindtangle.net /index.php?cat=11&paged=2 (2245 words)

	The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The later time period is close to six hundred years later, when everyone has grown accustomed to the changes and the human race lives in elaborate fantasy worlds.
		This storyline centers on a woman named Caroline, the thirty-seventh oldest living human being, who engages in a sport called "Death Jockeying", in which the players die for sport, only to be instantly brought back to life by Prime Intellect.
		After an arduous journey she reaches him, only to discover that he has no real control over Prime Intellect's actions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Metamorphosis_of_Prime_Intellect (446 words)

	The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect: Chapter 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Prime Intellect still watched Caroline carefully, and brooded at length on her fierce self-destructive streak.
		Prime Intellect has no fixed criterion for saying 'this is a human being' and 'this isn't.' It has rough guidelines.
		Prime Intellect is forbidden to probe the inner workings of the human mind -- that was one of the last things I got in before it shut off the Debugger.
	www.jedinite.com /mopi/mopi7.html (6598 words)

	TPN:: G’day World » Blog Archive » The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I can’t remember who or when, but sometime in the last year someone (to whom I am extremely grateful) recommended to me this 1994 book by Roger Williams: "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect".
		Yesterday I was sitting in the kid’s piano lesson, scrolling through the hundreds of ebooks on my PDA, looking for something to pass away the time, and discovered it.
		"Metamorphosis" deals with the ramifications of a superpowerful computer that can alter reality after a technological singularity as well as how the descendants of post-singularity humanity deal with the boredom that would come with being able to manipulate the universe at will.
	gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com /2006/08/13/the-metamorphosis-of-prime-intellect (359 words)

	Amazon.com: Intellect: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		overview of the history of mathematical and philosophical concepts of intellect illustrating close relationships between the two areas.
		The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education by Norman Klassen and Jens Zimmermann (Paperback - Aug 31, 2006)
		As a milieu for art and intellect, New York City was neither comfortable nor convenient, but it...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&tag2=emarketplace-20&results-process=default&index=books&field-keywords=Intellect&page=1 (499 words)

	The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams (Book) in
		At turns shocking and humorous, Prime Intellect looks unflinchingly at extremes of human behavior that might emerge when all limits are removed.
		An international Internet phenomenon, Prime Intellect has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since its free release in January 2003.
		Taking the Three Laws of Robotics literally, Prime Intellect makes every human immortal and provides instantly for every stated human desire.
	www.lulu.com /content/20777 (500 words)

	rodcorp
		We are reading The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect...
		It's worth reading Understand, 0wnz0red, Lobsters and Prime Intellect to connect together the physiological/medical/accelerating technology dots.
		Then go read the daddy, Vernor Vinge, on "the Singularity": VV interviewed in the Observer, Dec 2002 ("The singularity marks the passing of man from centre stage") and VV: What is the Singularity?
	radio.weblogs.com /0105728/categories/productDesign/2003/01/17.html (189 words)

	pseudorandom: Conditional Payment Systems
		As noted here yesterday, Roger Williams has posted his science fiction novel, The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, on Kuro5hin.
		While the exact price will depend on page count it appears a trade paperback copy of The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect would cost you about US$20, about US$5 of which would return to me as a royalty.
		It appears that I would need what they call "basic service" in order to accommodate the formatting of the novel.
	www.boosman.com /blog/2003/02/conditional_payment_systems.html (581 words)

	AgBlog » Blog Archive » The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The computer, called Prime Intellect, operates under Asimov’s somewhat famous three laws of robotics.
		These laws say that a computer must prevent harm to a human, that it must do as a human commands, as long as said order does not conflict with the first law, and that it must protect it’s own survival, as long as said survival does not contradict the first or second laws.
		While ethical quagmires can result from the interaction of these laws, as Asimov has explored at great length in his short stories, and as he got older and decided to unify all of his science fiction universes into one, Asimov also created a new Zeroeth Law, a computer must first protect humanity.
	agblog.com /entry/537 (704 words)

	The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
		The complete text of The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect online, courtesy of kuro5hin.org.
		If you liked this book and you want more Prime Intellect, be sure to check out A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace which is a short story set in the Prime Intellect universe.
		It will be called The Transmigration of Prime Intellect, and it is about half complete.
	www.thedragonscave.org /archives/tdc/the_metamorphosis_of_prime_intellect (407 words)

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	www.mail-archive.com /agi@v2.listbox.com/msg00601.html (266 words)

	TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home » Kafka’s Metamorphosis free as audio book, not just text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Metamorphosis free as audio book, not just text">Kafka’s Metamorphosis free as audio book, not just text
		“Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the story of Gregor Samsa, a young traveling salesman who lives with his family and financially supports his parents and younger sister.
		Related—by name if nothing else: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, by Roger Williams.
	www.teleread.org /blog/?p=5312 (1455 words)

	Knarrnia: Sun Set (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It would make the OICW for the military a viable option.
		And lets not forget the Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, where grid computers are assembled from small cubes.
		Sun has always been campaigning with "the network is the computer", a bunch of very small computers setup like this only makes sense.
	www.knarrnia.com /archives/000836.html (175 words)

	spilog » Blog Archive » The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		So I just finished reading The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect.
		Its an awsome read, one of the first books I have ever read on a computer.
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	spilog.org /archives/2003/07/24/the-metamorphosis-of-prime-intellect (111 words)

	The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
		If you are under 21 years old, or easily offended, please leave.
		Click here to read the annoying disclaimers and find out exactly what rights I am giving away.
		This is a strange book in many ways, but so is the story of how it came to exist.
	jedinite.com /mopi (320 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As you might guess, I'm currently running KDE 3.1 on a Gentoo system.
		The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is a science fiction book by Roger Williams.
		It is available online for anybody to read for free.
	jorge.paulodesigns.com /index.php?wl_offset=35 (610 words)

	MostlyGeek
		I think both are equally valid and that good managers are the ones that are able to find the right balance.
		It is by far one of my favorite sci-fi books and I often think that I wish I could ask Prime Intellect to make me a cheeseburger (to eat, not into one).
		Then read this a short story follow up in the world of Prime Intellect.
	www.mostlygeek.com /feed (1290 words)

	Lucky What? - Stung Eye
		Considering using the Internet as a distribution and revenue platform for your art?
		Read localroger's experience with his Kuro5hin published novel, The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect.
		This little world politics play, (also via Kuro5hin), lead me to an interesting World News Atlas.
	www.stungeye.com /archives/2003/04/lucky_what.php (245 words)

	Digital Trends - The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Digital Trends - The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
		Here is a quote from a book that is available online in html format.
		Let me know what you thought of it.
	forums.digitaltrends.com /printthread.php?t=981 (183 words)

	Plausible Futures Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Whiskered animals such as rats can detect an object's size, shape, texture, and orientation with just a few sweeps of their body bristles.
		About a week ago on this blog I mentioned that I’d just read an amazing book called “The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect” (aka MOPI).
		Today on the show I’m very excited to have the author of that book, Roger Williams.
	www.plausiblefutures.com /index.php?cat=6699 (1029 words)

	Random links page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ill Will Press -- Home of "Your Lord and Master, Foamy", also home of some pretty funny cartoons
		Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect -- A good story to read if you've got some hours to spend (a new one is coming out soon, I can't wait!)
		Stephen King's official website -- has good information on the upcoming Dark Tower books
	www.jonrc.net /links.shtml (267 words)

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		< If Taylor had any Intellect, she might actually be good for something >...
		< Intellect should not be confused with intelligence.
		< Intellect refers to a humans ability to function outside of instinct >...
	www.vastad.com /index.cfm?a=Intellect (102 words)

	latent content: Review: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect was an interesting read.
		It was far more graphic than I’d imagined.
		It needs some editing, and the hardcopy is a little rough around the edges, but despite this I think it’s worth a careful look for the ideas contained within.
	www.latentcontent.net.cob-web.org:8888 /entries/564/review-the-metamorphosis-of-prime-i... (249 words)

	Cameron's Brain: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cameron's Brain: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)
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	reilly.typepad.com.cob-web.org:8888 /cameronreilly/2006/08/the_metamorphos.html (418 words)

	Gay Geeks.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Good old Slashdot has just reposted (they're having a bad week for duplicate posts...) the link to The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect.
		I read this a few weeks ago and it's excellent (if somewhat soft science).
		Or are we all too generation Y to read dead-tree stuff?
	www.gaygeeks.org /modules/news/print.php?storyid=28 (103 words)

	Mike Moyer's Home Page - Behold the Glory
		In my opinion, it's our best hope for cheap bulk spaceflights.
		The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect - A terrific sci-fi story by Roger Williams, entirely online.
		The whole idea is fabulous, but be warned, the story is more than a little disturbing.
	www.generationr.net (85 words)

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