From: Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Date: Fri Oct 18 1996 - 00:21:23 MDT
Robin Hanson wrote:
> If one looked at the inards of a very advanced computer, then if one
> intercepted a "long" communications channel, where the cost to
> transmit was large <snip>
>
> I'd expect an advanced computer to notice if some external force
> started to muck around with its innards, and to do something about it.
Perhaps the laws of physics are actually an error correcting code....
> To me, the idea that this circuit diagram is actually an
> optimum design for an advanced computer seems completely crazy.
>
I believe it was Wolfgang Pauli who said that most theories aren't crazy
enough to be true....
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