Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote: > Let's imagine I'm a superintelligent magician, sitting in my castle, > Dyson Sphere, what-have-you. I want to allow sentient beings some way > to visitme, but I'm tired of all these wandering AIXI-tl spambots that > script kiddies code up to brute-force my entrance challenges. I don't > want to tl-bound my visitors; what if an actual sentient 10^10^15 > ops/sec big wants to visit me? I don't want to try and examine the > internal state of the visiting agent, either; that just starts a war of > camouflage between myself and the spammers. Luckily, there's a simple > challenge I can pose to any visitor, cooperation with your clone, that > filters out the AIXI-tls and leaves only beings who are capable of a > certain level of reflectivity, presumably genuine sentients. I don't > need to know the tl-bound of my visitors, or the tl-bound of the > AIXI-tl, in order to construct this challenge. I write the code once.
Oh, that's trivial to break. I just put my AIXI-t1 (whatever that is) in a human body and send it via rocket-ship... There would no way to clone this being so you would have no way to carry out the test. -- I WANT A DEC ALPHA!!! =) 21364: THE UNDISPUTED GOD OF ALL CPUS. http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/ [if rcn.com doesn't work, try erols.com ] ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
