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

From: Nicholas Bostrom (bostrom@mail.ndirect.co.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 29 1997 - 04:59:42 MDT

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Mitchell Porter wrote:

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

--"Do what I would tell you to do if I had discussed this issue with
you and my friends and the wisest humans and had thought about it for
twenty years!"

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