[extropy-chat] intelligent design homework

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Samantha Atkins wrote:
> It was a highly self-improved FAI that accidentally created a  universe 
> within itself through the simple process of thinking about  how its 
> origin and the fate of its creators could have gone differently.

That's bloody difficult for an FAI to do by accident.  If you said it was an 
UFAI who did it without caring, that'd be another story.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence