From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Sun Jun 23 2002 - 13:12:18 MDT
You can't imagine a superhuman AI could take 100 years to create a time
machine?
Maybe creating a time machine is just plain impossible.... Can't you
imagine that?
I can!
-- ben g
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sysopmind.com [mailto:owner-sl4@sysopmind.com]On Behalf
> Of Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 12:48 PM
> To: sl4@sysopmind.com
> Subject: Re: How hard a Singularity?
>
>
> 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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