RE: Post Singularity Earth

From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sun May 12 2002 - 05:56:16 MDT


On Sat, 11 May 2002, Lee Corbin wrote:

> that the iron core won't serve Earth's new masters. But why do you
> think a super intelligent AI won't be able to radically transform the
> surface of the Earth within a few days or weeks of its advent?

There's enough fuel on the surface and the few m of humus layer to
transform Earth's surface (strictly) radically in a course of a few days.
You might even make this compatible with people's survival, if you knock
them out, and cocoon up (for life support and/or uploading).

I'm not sure how soon you could leap into space, but it would be probably
also on hour range.



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