From: Aaron McBride (amcbride@jps.net)
Date: Sun Jun 23 2002 - 13:36:46 MDT
I can easily imagine that building a time machine is impossible. It's very
difficult to believe that it is possible, and that it couldn't be figured
out for 10 billion years of subjective time.
-Aaron
At 01:12 PM 6/23/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>You can't imagine a superhuman AI could take 100 years to create a time
>machine?
>
>Maybe creating a time machine is just plain impossible.... Can't you
>imagine that?
>
>I can!
>
>
>
>-- ben g
<clip>
> > At a conservative final-technology-of-computronium speedup of a hundred
> > million to one (Robert Bradbury's figure for processing in a Matrioshka
> > Brain), and starting the clock at 2023, that's TEN BILLION YEARS
> > from now.
> > I can't even imagine it.
> >
> > --
> > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
> > Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
> >
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