Re: [singularity] Multiverse and Alien Singularities

2007-03-29 Thread Joshua Fox יהושע פוקס
> > John Ku > > ... motivations (e.g. creativity, pursuing knowledge for its own sake, ... > Matt Mahoney > ...Such a narrow view... Chuck Esterbrook ... ego centric views of mankind... "Creativity, pursuing knowledge for its own sake," are considered primary motivations only by a narrow frac

Re: [singularity] Multiverse and Alien Singularities

2007-03-28 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/28/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- John Ku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Kurzweil on certain points. I think any intelligent life would > have evolved with very similar evolutionary pressures and thus share broad > similarities in their motivations (e.g. creativ

Re: [singularity] Multiverse and Alien Singularities

2007-03-28 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- John Ku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Kurzweil on certain points. I think any intelligent life would > have evolved with very similar evolutionary pressures and thus share broad > similarities in their motivations (e.g. creativity, pursuing knowledge for > its own sake, probably s

[singularity] Multiverse and Alien Singularities

2007-03-27 Thread John Ku
I argued previously that inflationary cosmology and its successes give us good reason to think there is probably a multiverse that spawns 10^37 *more* universes every second. I think Kurzweil has argued that there probably have not been any other singularities elsewhere in the universe already and