From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun May 12 2002 - 12:38:51 MDT
On Sun, 12 May 2002, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> 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.
If unopposed. You are also assuming an AI bright enough to be able
to develop the means of turning raw materials into computronium
optimized for the AI -- that is hardly something that occurs in
a few days.
There are 10E148 patterns of atoms that can occupy a cubic nanometer
[Drexler, '92]. Even the most advanced AI can't explore a fraction of
that in 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.
Since we can leap to space the ability to do so would presumably
a very early capability. Thus it makes much more sense to leap
to space (an environment humans can't easily adapt to) and optimize
yourself from there.
Robert
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