Re: How to make money fast (in science fiction)

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:36:58 +1000, James A. Donald <jamesd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>> ID theft - should be laughably easy.
>> 
>> Con artist - unlimited numbers of old people he could scam
>> over the phone
>> 
>> Counterfeiting - should be able to make fake money that
>> could not be traced or found.
>> 
>> Electronic theft - no doubt could sneak into huge corporations
>> and bleed off some money in an untraceable manner.
>
>All of these require excellent human skills.  Do you think that a
>human has better chimpanzee skills than a chimpanzee?

Con artist requires some marginally decent human skills, but only focused 
ones. Electronic theft and counterfeiting don't require much if any -- 
heck, some kind of nanotech replicator would be an excellent counterfeiter

without any human skills at all, and it doesn't take much in the way of 
human skill to spend cash.

>His human skills will be extremely bad - humans will be somewhat alien
>to him, and he somewhat alien to humans.

I think he could easily learn (what with being superintelligent and having

hundreds of thousands of hours of video and pages of literature + 
psychology research) to be a really good human. Didn't the OP say he 
looked human? Got us vs. chimps beat right there, then.
-- 
chuk