From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 00:16:55 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> You would? Why? What's the practical difference between 200ly
> and 10^10^53ly? An erudite off-list correspondent emphasized to
> me in an email exchange that anything further away than 10^15
> ly is beyond our event horizon, so we can't ever learn anything
> about worlds 10^10^53 light years away, and so who cares? Well,
> I do. It feels warm and comfy to know that only 10^10^53 ly
> away another one of me is pounding out this same email. Gives
> me a sense of real community.
Um, Lee, I'm afraid you've made a mistake. That "other version" *is* you.
The version you thought was you is the one that's actually an
unthinkable distance away from you. I'm not sure how this affects your
sense of community but I thought you ought to know.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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