Pi-faced

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Mar 16 2002 - 14:12:41 MST


Hi, guys! I just figured out a way to - without ontotechnology - insert a
short natural-language message into Pi, starting at (for the sake of the
discussion) around the 1000th digit, and continuing for one or two extended
sentences, maybe 30 to 100 letters total. I guess it just goes to show that
you should never leap to conclusions about what post-Singularity entities
can and can't do!

(Far as I can tell, the "Contact" scenario is still impossible, though.)

Sincerely,
Eliezer.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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