Re: Doomsday vs Diaspora

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 17:33:45 MDT

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    Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
    > On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky discussing my comments
    > about how difficult it is to destroy an "advanced" civilization wrote:
    >
    >>What about a thunderbolt singularity?
    >
    > I'm not sure what you may be describing Eliezer. Is this an
    > "accident" like everyone feared might happen at Brookhaven?
    > Or is it something more like a point-source-singularity that
    > I think the Magog use on Andromeda?

    It's a consistent GR solution for an evaporating black hole which exposes
    the naked singularity, which then propagates and annihilates the entire
    future light cone of that event.

    Here's a paper by Stephen Hawking and J.M. Stewart:
    http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/9207105 

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

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