[extropy-chat] silent night

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Thu Dec 23 13:39:21 UTC 2004


On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:05:34AM -0500, Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote:

> Are you sure?  An FAI could take apart the Sun too, y'know.  You could lose 
> the bet, and still be alive to pay it.

While you could do some pretty good large scale engineering in 20 years, I
doubt the physical laws allow much stellar disassembling in that time frame.

Nobody here is an SI, sure. There might be some loopholes we're not yet aware
of.

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