From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Jan 01 1999 - 12:08:32 MST
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:
> I should also note that "Alpha" now has a slightly different
> contrast-to-Omega meaning. If there's infinite computing power at the
> end of the Universe, there's equally infinite computing power at the Big
> Bang - the Alpha Point. One would expect that if an infinite amount of
> information-processing is going on, some Power-like beings would evolve
> by pure chance.
>
> What happened to them is a very interesting question. Probably they
> tunneled to new Big Bangs when it started getting cold.
A nice line of thought (pun intended :-).
Related to the "Fast evolution machine" (I think the section was
called) mentioned in Damien's _The Spike_.
> On the other hand, for various complex reasons involving the Anthropic
> Principle, the Great Filter, Occam's Razor, Hofstadterian renormalized
> game theory, time travel, and SI motivations, I no longer think this is
> the correct picture of the Universe.
:-)
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