[extropy-chat] intelligent design homework

[Dirk Bruere]

Jeff Medina wrote:

>On 8/7/05, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>This isn't as tongue-in-cheek as you might think. I have a paper draft
>on the ethics of superintelligent thought that considers this very
>problem. The being needn't consider its own past or alternate history
>-- any 'daydreaming' could suffice. It is mathematically
>demonstratable that a sufficiently intelligent being could think other
>conscious beings into existence in ver own mind; which might be quite
>unfortunate for the dreamt-up person, should the thinker/creator
>decide to ponder something or someone else instead.
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Humans think conscious beings into existence all the time. It's only 
when they get out of hand eg schizphrenia, that they really become 
noticeable.
Not to mention Ouija games.
The group gestalt in a Ouija game can certainly pass the Turing test.

-- 
Dirk

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