Re: wisdom of nature (was: Re: The International Forum on Globalization)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 22:35:11 MST


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 01:04 PM 6/02/01 -0700, Terry Donaghe wrote:
>
> >They also speak about the "wisdom" of nature. What the heck is that?
>
> Run time + computational space.

I really doubt that *anyone* who says "wisdom of nature" means "run time +
computational space". At the very least, they mean "nature" as opposed to
things that humanity builds.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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