Re: RBs Top-Ten-List [was Re: EVOLUTION: Stress needed for diversity?]

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 19:53:54 MST


At 02:15 PM 19/03/00 -0500, Bob Owen wrote:

>> 6) What is the probability that an amoral, self-evolving, self-replicating
>> AI/Alife can develop and "breakout" by accident? { After all, the
>> computers and the net *are* an environmental niche... }

>29.

That is incoherent. Probabilities only range from 0 => 1.00.

Damien
[don't you hate it when someone gets rigorous about a throwaway joke?]



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