[ExI] favor for a friend

[Giovanni Santostasi]

By the way, have you ever watched this movie:
Pi, by Aronofsky?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0SC582sJvE



On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 3:45 PM Giovanni Santostasi <gsantostasi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The discussion is really going in a different direction from the original
> topic. Seriously what you guys think is the reason math works so well in
> the natural world, even if it is a pretty crazy abstraction (real number
> having infinite decimal places, imaginary numbers being a solution in
> physics equations representing anti-matter like in the Dirac equation and
> so on)?
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> PS
> Now that Spike told me not to do it I'm going to do the Pi experiment for
> sure, in fact, I will even try the Euler number. YOLO
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> Giovanni
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> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 1:20 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
>> Of *Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
>> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] favor for a friend
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>> >…Imagine a servant AI that can do any well-enough-defined task almost
>> instantly, so long as it's only dealing with pure information that it has
>> access to.  Now imagine an evil - genocidal, perhaps - human who gets very
>> proficient about imagining and defining such tasks, including having the AI
>> research and find what information it can access.  This possibility isi
>> much closer than an AI that is evil in and of itself, no?  Adrian
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>> Ja of course, and this is a perfect example of why military leaders all
>> over the world are watching this very closely: the first guy who figures
>> out a servant AI as you described can replicate it arbitrarily, and it
>> costs her nearly nothing.  That guy owns the planet.
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>> spike
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