Re: What should you ask a wish machine to do for you?

From: Mitchell Porter (mitch@thehub.com.au)
Date: Sat Sep 27 1997 - 04:43:36 MDT

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I asked

> What should you ask a wish machine to do for you?

Anders Sandberg:

> "Would you please implement the Omega Point?"

"What sort of Omega Point?"

Anton Sherwood:

> to start with, a way to incorporate the machine's abilities
> (including superintelligence) into myself.

"Consider me part of your extended self, and this is
already done."

Damien Broderick:

> `Guide me, O Lord...'

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

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