On 10 June 2015 at 08:37, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > The normal answer to this is as stated - a superintelligence may form, as > per various Arthur C Clark (or Olaf Stapledon, really) stories, by merging > lots of non-super intelligences. So the chances of finding yourself > non-super is vastly greater, because it takes billions of us to make one of > them. However, this could lead to you eventually finding yourself super > (especially if quantum immortality operates). Or a subset of super. > > PS Ants aren't relevant, as Russell explains in "Theory of Nothing". >
OK, but the same argument can easily be made otherwise: why should you find yourself living in tiny New Zealand rather than populous China? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
