Re: Uploaded Omniscience

From: JAY DUGGER (duggerj1@charter.net)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 06:53:01 MDT

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    >Beautiful vision. A preliminary stage of that goal would
    >be a kind of
    >virtual riding out before breakfast which has always been
    >one of my
    >favourite dreams. To log in the cameras of different
    >satellites, to inspect
    >my favourite places on the planet, to float calmly over
    >the Aegean Sea and
    >beckon the ships over, pilot them generously through the
    >strait of Corinth
    >with a wave of my hand and switch to another satellite
    >camera that zooms to
    >the peak of Mount Everest where I can see the last steps
    >of a roped party in
    >high resolution.
    >

    Yes, this would have real uses. See also "omniscience
    simulation", an EG entry by (you guessed it) Anders
    Sandberg.

    >

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