From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 01:25:37 MDT
Adrian writes
> > Question please: if the emergent AI simulates humanity at
> > the moment of the singularity, then there are a bunch of
> > simulated beings who are working to invent AI and who
> > would have a strong suspicion that all the elements are in
> > place for a singularity to occur. Right?
>
>
> Suspicion, maybe. Proof, no. And so long as there is no proof, no
> problem just not having the AI emerge in the sim...or for the AI to be
> there, but not upload humanity in the simulation.
> If anyone asks [the AI why we don't get a recursive Spike]
> why, it tells them they're already in the simulation...
Yes, ;-) That would be an easy way out! Say that uploading
all those complicated biological organisms is a royal pain, and
that as the SI moves through the Earth's crust converting
everything in its path to itself, it also finds that it's squeamish
about converting people too, so it lets us keep the top .1 percent
of the planet. And then it uses your idea to perplex us:
"Nah, you've already been uploaded. See how realistic it is!
I'll bet that you can hardly tell the difference!", har har har.
Lee
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