From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 18:27:33 MST
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> I think Greg Egan has done the best "message within pi" trick so far in
> _Diaspora_. The message of the Transmuters is both obvious (in a way),
> informative and suggests a way out of the system. I think I will use
> something similar when I start creating universes - give the inhabitants
> a chance to get out if they poke deep enough.
If you wish to create a universe with truly sentient inhabitants that suffer
and die until they perform some physics trick, then you are evil and must be
stopped.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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