Re: "analog computer" = useless hypothesis?

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 21:50:29 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 10:10 PM 4/2/01 -0400, Eliezer wrote:
>
> >> Here's a deep question: would an analog AI constructed out
> >> of vacuum tubes have a "mellower" personality than one
> >> made out of transistors? ;-> ;-> ;->
>
> >No.
>
> Oh.
>
> < hollow clunk >
>
> I think you might need to be twice as old as Eliezer to appreciate Jim's
> gentle joke.

*WHAP*

(That was the sound of me slapping myself on the forehead.)

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



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