From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jun 23 2002 - 12:48:09 MDT
Ben Goertzel wrote:
> On the other hand, perhaps the delayed Singularity will result in a
> superhuman AI that cares about humans and thus, once it invents a time
> machine in 2123, bothers to go back in time and resurrect all those dead
> humans....
TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE AD?
At a conservative final-technology-of-computronium speedup of a hundred
million to one (Robert Bradbury's figure for processing in a Matrioshka
Brain), and starting the clock at 2023, that's TEN BILLION YEARS from now.
I can't even imagine it.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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