On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can destroy all Earth-originated life if I start early enough. If > > there is something else out there, it can similarly be hostile and try > > destroy me if it can, without listening to any friendliness prayer. > > All definitely true. The only advantage to my approach is that you *have* a > friendliness prayer that *might* convince them to leave you alone. Do you > have any better alternative to stop a vastly superior power? I'll bet not. >
What if they are secular deities and send believers to Hell? > > > I can upload what I can and/or initiate new intelligent entities > > inside controlled virtual environments. > > You can but doing so requires effort and you're tremendously unlikely to get > the richness and variety that you would get if you just allowed evolution to > do the work throughout the universe. Why are you voluntarily impoverishing > yourself? That's *not* in your self-interest. Virtual environment is almost as powerful as physical. Simply converting enough matter to appropriate variety of computronium shouldn't require too much effort. > > > See my above arguments about why comparative advantage doesn't work in > > this case. I can produce ideal slaves that are no less able than > > potential allies, but don't have agenda of their own. > > Producing slaves takes resources/effort. I feel that you underestimate the power of generally intelligent tools. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
