[extropy-chat] AI design

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> It's a *super-intelligence*, see,
> a constructed mind that makes
> the puny human *insignificant* by comparison -
> - so what *else* is it going to do
> except get trapped immediately
> by a really dumb pun
> into turning the cosmos
> in smiley faces?
> Damien Broderick

Heh heh, but does this *super-intelligence*
collapse state vectors?

This is a crucial question, since
only humans usually collapse state vectors,
according to our present knowledge,
and ... well .... ahem ... experiments:
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0312115

"I've said it before, I'll say it again:
Can a dog collapse a state vector?
Dogs don't use state vectors.
I myself didn't collapse a state vector
until I was 20 years old."
- Christopher A. Fuchs
(in http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105039 )

It seems that Einstein objected to suggestions 
- mainly by W.Pauli - of observer-created reality, 
in quantum theory, by saying that he could not imagine 
that a mouse (sometimes you read "a pig") could 
drastically change the universe simply by looking at it.
It seems that Hugh Everett III - but for sure
also Bruce de Witt - observed that it is the mouse
(or the pig) that is split by its observation 
of the rest of the universe. The rest of the universe 
is unaffected, and unsplit.]

"It is better to think of parts of the universe 
as splitting. As Everett once said (roughly), 
if a mouse observes the universe, the mouse, 
not the universe, is changed. 
I would say, if a human mind observes the universe,
the mind, not the universe, is split."
- Frank J. Tipler (2002)

What a problem for those super-minds!

s. :-)