Re: What should you ask a wish machine to do for you?

Mitchell Porter (mitch@thehub.com.au)
Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:43:36 +1000 (EST)


I asked

> What should you ask a wish machine to do for you?

Anders Sandberg:

> "Would you please implement the Omega Point?"

"What sort of Omega Point?"

Anton Sherwood:

> to start with, a way to incorporate the machine's abilities
> (including superintelligence) into myself.

"Consider me part of your extended self, and this is
already done."

Damien Broderick:

> `Guide me, O Lord...'

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

-mitch
http://www.thehub.com.au/~mitch