Anders Sandberg wrote:
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > I should also note that "Alpha" now has a slightly different
> > contrast-to-Omega meaning. If there's infinite computing power at the
> > end of the Universe, there's equally infinite computing power at the Big
> > Bang - the Alpha Point. One would expect that if an infinite amount of
> > information-processing is going on, some Power-like beings would evolve
> > by pure chance.
> >
> > What happened to them is a very interesting question. Probably they
> > tunneled to new Big Bangs when it started getting cold.
>
> A nice line of thought (pun intended :-).
Delriviere
Christophe