At 07:57 PM 8/23/98 +0200, Anders Sandberg wrote:
>Hara Ra <harara@shamanics.com> writes:
>
>> Would someone briefly summarize Tipler's argument here?
>The quick version:
>
Thanks!
>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.
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