----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Leitl" <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: Why would AI want to be friendly?
> Jason Joel Thompson writes:
>
> > The question remains (and I'll rephrase for clarity:)
> >
> > Does truly superior intelligence require free will?
>
> Can you tell random from pseudorandom, without further knowledge about
> the generation source?
This is an interesting question.
My immediate temptation was to answer 'no.'
However if a number generator is pseudo-random, then it applies is a logic
or process by which it generates its numbers, which in theory I imagine
might be detectable given a sufficiently large sample and sufficiently smart
pattern recognition software.
One could assign a probability of being truly random to such a string of
numbers. (Which is all one could do in any case.)
--::jason.joel.thompson:: ::founder::
www.wildghost.com
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