[extropy-chat] intelligent design homework

[Samantha Atkins]

The (tonuge in cheek) notion was that a sufficiently powerful  
intelligence would effectively create a highly articulated sim simply  
in the act of considering its own past or alternate history.

- samantha

On Aug 7, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

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