Re: Spiking into Free Space

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 14:48:49 MDT


Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> Assuming of course that we don't screw with stars that already have life
> around them and leave room for that life to also grow, I have no great
> problem here. Except that I find it odd that I am accused of "bubris"
> when I speak of tuning our economic system more realistically and
> appropriately to what we wish to accomplish yet you believe it is only
> natural and write that you speak about colonizing every star in the
> galaxy and even having entire galaxies obey your whim. Something is
> just a tad out of kilter here. Don't you think?

I don't think so. Why not? What good are stars?

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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