Re: Help with old thread/idea - building +angels +future

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 17:07:15 MST


Anders Sandberg wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:49:42PM -0500, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
>>Bret Kulakovich wrote:
>>
>>>I seem to recollect a book or theory about in the future we will build
>>>the angels that are a part of our collective past.
>>
>>I'm pretty sure I didn't do it.
>
> Are you sure? You were pretty wasted after our marathon debate "Friendly
> AI: I *Told* You So!" at Extro 67, and I distinctly recall that you were
> tinkering with those CTCs and Tipler cylinders I had brought along for
> the spacetime engineering panel.

No. Never never NEVER mess around with time travel. I'm not going to
make *that* mistake. Weird things happen, and I mean weirrrrd, if you
start messing around with time travel.

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


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