From: Billy Brown (bbrown@transcient.com)
Date: Wed Nov 03 1999 - 11:23:04 MST
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> Hal, what a great idea!! So the SIs can run the experiment untroubled
> by the moral implications that allowing information to decay into
> dust violates the commonly accepted standards of "Mind Ethics".
Except that this only works if we are literally a simulation. If we are
living in the real world then even advanced nanotechnology won't enable them
to do this undetected - you need too much hardware in everyone's brains, and
in the surrounding environment, to be able to escape detection even by a
primitive race like us.
Of course, I suppose they could be controlling our minds to prevent us from
noticing the intervention, but that approach leads to untestable (and
therefore pointless) theories.
Billy Brown, MCSE+I
bbrown@transcient.com
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