[ExI] Singularity

spike spike66 at att.net
Wed Nov 17 00:17:24 UTC 2010


From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Alan Grimes
...
>> ...  We need an AI that is friendly indeed, if 
>> we have any hope of having it decide that your wishes are more 
>> important than the 6 billion similar simulated souls it could construct
out of you... spike


>But how does that math work out? 1/6 billionth of me is only a few
milligrams... Who the hell would want to be the size of a grain of sand when
they could be the size of a planet? I would not value such an existence more
than a grain of sand anyway. =\

Imagine if you were the size of a grain of sand but feel exactly the way you
do now.  You could be the size of a grain of sand now, and not realize it.
If you were the size of a planet, there would be far too much mass under
such pressure and at such temperatures that it would not be available for
computronium.

spike











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