From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Aug 05 1999 - 18:51:40 MDT
Why go to such lengths for such a meager return? Magic is (rather too)
easy in artificial reality. Most of constraints (i.e. slowing down
the time base and management of computational resources) will be of
co-evolutionary origin.
David Lubkin writes:
> With brain-computer linkage, we get telepathy and empathic psi.
> Add utility fog (or equivalent) and we get telekinesis and fire-starting.
> With assemblers and disassemblers, we get teleportation (albeit really slowly).
>
> Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic...
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