From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat May 11 2002 - 20:51:51 MDT
Robert writes
> But if you think carefully about this you will realize
> that the Earth, particularly its contents, are pretty far
> down on the computronium conversion schedule. Titan and
> Triton probably are near the top of the list followed by
> Uranus and everything further out in the solar system.
Olaf Stapledon strikes again: he predicted that our
civilization would one day resume on Neptune...
> So unless you subscribe to the idea that AI's will be able to
> invent magic physics (don't make me have to get my ruler to
> slap your fingers now boys....)
No, no. No one wants that!
> ...I think we get at least a thousand years or so of
> gradual adaptation of humanity to the "singularity".
Anything's possible, but in *some* likely scenarios, "we"
won't have a thousand minutes, much less a thousand years:
I appreciate your conclusions that the Earth isn't going
to be disassembled any time soon; yeah, it does make sense
that the iron core won't serve Earth's new masters. But
why do you think a super intelligent AI won't be able to
radically transform the surface of the Earth within a few
days or weeks of its advent?
Lee
> That makes the whole concept of
> a singularity, particularly the hard takeoff scenario
> (at least in the physical realm) rather questionable IMO.
>
> Robert
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