From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 03:57:30 MST
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> A posthuman or SI that constantly continuously grows would eventually
> know everything in this universe that is possible to know. If it
> managed to transcend space/time it would be effectively omnipresent.
> Having all knowledge, time and materials at hand it would effectively
> be omnipotent. What is missing here?
It wouldn't be able to know anything but itself. I.e. it would not have
enough bits at t to be able to accurately represent itself at t.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:06:22 MST