From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 21:33:16 MDT
At 10:53 AM 27/09/00 -0400, Eliezer wrote:
>Phylum radiation is
>cognitively plausible only if the SI possesses an explicit drive for
>reproduction and diversification at the expense of its own welfare.
This seems a rather odd thing to read from a fan of mutation-with-selection
accounts of lebenforms. Presumably there are a couple of suppressed
premises here: that SIs would never choose to copy themselves, or if they
did choose to do so they'd have absolutely perfect reliable error-checking,
forever.
Damien Broderick
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