[extropy-chat] Re: Structure of AI

[Walter_Chen at compal.com]

We can't just think based on current tech. or logic.
For example, quantum computing uses complex numbers as probability.
So dividing by zero or system crash cause problems only on our computers.
There is no way to say there are such problems on "the universe".
If life is a simulation, it's just very reasonable for human beings to ask
for such adjustment buttons
to change our life once and for all.
If life is not a simulation, such adjustment buttons still could exist
somewhere in the universe
(because nobody really knows why and how comes the universe).

Thanks.
 
Walter.
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Mike Lorrey

I think that's a bit too much to expect, as such buttons would create
the sort of instabilities I spoke of the other day. I suspect that most
such 'buttons' typically wind up triggering the creation of black holes
and other singularity functions which are essentially the result of
dividing by zero. If you want to screw around with such things, they'd
have to be more than just theories or papers, you'd have to build a
physical mechanism that operated such a function.

Then you'd have to deal with entities in the future light cone who
would take unkindly to people screwing around with such toys that would
impact their past timeline. Charlie Stross' unseen character The
Eschaton in "Singularity Sky" is one such.

-----Original Message-----
From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of scerir

Walter, It crashes automatically after enough applications are run upon
it..
The question is whether or not  the existing information (or which portion
of the existing information) is preserved. Not sure this post, and your
question, would be preserved, after next MS-Uniwows reboot.
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