[ExI] Survival (was: elections again)

[Bryan Bishop]

On Tuesday 01 January 2008, John K Clark wrote:
> Not so. I upload you and put you in a virtual universe (perhaps I
> should say another virtual universe) and then the laws of physics are
> whatever I say they are.

You cannot completely escape reality, no matter how nested the sim. No 
part is greater than the whole. You have to be careful here, since 
being indistuingishable from God and believing that it *is* God quickly 
leads to Edeism [1]. For seed ai to be God ... would mean so many 
contradictory things that it's not funny, since the typical western 
idealization of God includes such characteristics as perfection, 
infiniteness, and an assortment of other meaningless things.

[1] http://heybryan.org/edeism.html :)

- Bryan
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Bryan Bishop
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