From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 14:06:10 MDT
Michael M. Butler wrote:
>
> But there's recording, and then there's processing. What if _attention_
> (mine, yours, *"theirs"*) is the limiting factor? If nobody _looks_ at
> the permanent record, is it there? Not trying to gainsay your line of
> reasoning, just trying to get my head around what seems like a fatal
> flaw. It's be diferent, perhaps, if the "sensitive dependency"
> influenced, say, the shape of a river, or a famous statue, or something.
> But in order to tell, wouldn't *everybody* (or a preponderance of
> people) have to know about the connection ahead of time?
>
> I mean, how much time would you personally spend looking at the ones and
> zeroes of that audio recording, out of all the time in your life? After
> you'd done so, wouldn't you just compress the experience into a memory
> with a lot fewer bits?
Ah, but that's not my clever plan.
:)
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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