Re: The Physics of Immortality

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Aug 26 1998 - 12:41:13 MDT


Hara Ra <harara@shamanics.com> writes:

> >3. Tipler argues on economical and game theoretical grounds that the
> >OP or beings near it will be very nice, and since they will have lots
> >of computing power to spare they will resurrect everybody who has ever
> >lived into a wonderful virtual world.
>
> The catch here is whether the set of all possible computations is the same
> as Aleph Zero.

Yes, they have the same cardinality. But don't worry, the number of
possible humans who could ever have lived is large but finite (due to
quantization), so the resurrection algorithm can run as a screensaver
on Omega's desktop :-)

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