From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Fri Jul 17 1998 - 10:41:35 MDT
'gene wrote:
> Assuming, 2098 is PostSingularity you can only
> safely exclude anything not in accordance with
> physical laws, but given what little we know
> this set of constraints is not very stringent.
> Of course if we run into saturation it might
> turn out your predictions are accurate, after
> all. Point is, we can't tell yet what actually
> happens.
If a post-Singularity entity is capable of
anything within the laws of physics (damn
bottlenecks) wouldn't it already have to be the
most efficient information processor possible?
Otherwise you could say that we are capable of
anything within physical law (i.e. I can build a
jupiter brain if I just evolve jupiter brain
building swirly things out of the top of my head).
BM
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