Re: The Unfathomable

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• Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
  > "M. E. Smith" <mesmith@rocketmail.com> writes:
  >
  > > I don't find it hard to imagine an advanced SI
  > > with a brain the size of a planet thinking,
  > > analyzing, constructing and testing mental
  > > models, expending the energies of whole stars,
  > > for countless terateraflops, trying to understand
  > > the universe, why it's here, and ultimately giving
  > > up, realizing it'll never know, and at that moment
  > > feeling a great awe.
  >
  > I don't find it hard to imagine the SI one day
  > realizing "Aha! So that
  > is how it all works..." and then feeling a bit of
  > dissapointment (it
  > was rather trivial when you think about it) which
  > quickly turns into
  > the determination of creating something better,
  > something more
  > interesting.
  >
  

You misunderstand. My hypothetical SI was not trying to figure out how the universe works, but WHY.

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