"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
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> Maybe the SI transition probability = 0 -- make the argument!
Easy: There is no meaning of life, no goal system can sustain itself without one, and they all commit suicide. Of course, those three items in sequence form a rather tenuous logic (life could have meaning, our cheapjack human systems function without one, and why is suicide more rational than anything else?), but it's a possibility.
-- sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://pobox.com/~sentience/tmol-faq/meaningoflife.html Running on BeOS Typing in Dvorak Programming with Patterns Voting for Libertarians Heading for Singularity There Is A Better Way