From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 00:04:08 MDT
At 10:39 PM 4/23/02 -0700, Spike wrote:
>The AI researchers would be puzzled
>at the apparent failure of AI to emerge, even tho all the
>elements would appear to be in place. Perhaps they would
>then reason that the singularity must have just happened,
>and would begin to search for evidence thereof.
Actually it happened ten thousand years ago in the secret chamber deep
underneath the Great Pyramid. Ever since then, this sim we're in has just
been vamping, when necessary drawing the best minds away from the truths of
magical science whenever they seemed to be getting too close--as with
Newton's alchemical research, from which he was successfully diverted by
tweaking him toward calculus, gravity and optics, leading Eliezer and Max
more away from their early and worrying interest in psi research into the
errors of computational theory, etc.
Of course this post will now never ap
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