Re: dreams of a better world

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 01:47:29 MST


"Jeff Allbright" <jeff.allbright@usa.net> writes:

> Spike -
>
> As long as the light illuminates *everything* then there's nothing to fear.
> The representation is the reality and it's neither good nor bad. It's those
> damn searchlights that make me uncomfortable.

Exactly. Although the problem with the Omega illumination is that it
covers not just what you really did, but also all possible variations
(it is cheaper and possibly only possible to simulate many worlds
rather than one).

> Spike wrote:
>
> Jeff, does not Tippler's Omega Point create a brilliant light that
> illuminates everything everyone ever did? Do we not all squirm just
> a little? Suddenly Im glad I was born a nerd... {8^D spike

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