From: Robin Hanson (hanson@dosh.hum.caltech.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 19 1996 - 12:39:25 MDT
N.Bostrom@lse.ac.uk writes:
> Robin Hanson wrote:
> >No question that you could still "grow" and learn by using
> >a bounded amount of computational hardware for an unbounded
> >time.
>
> What do you mean? If there are only finitely many states,
> you would sooner or later either come back to an earlier
> state or reach a stasis. So you mean that the bound is not
> on the number of states?
I grant your point. I was just trying to find a positive
interpretation of what you had said.
Robin Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
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