From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 05:53:43 MDT
Olga Bourlin wrote:
> From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@yahoo.com>
>>yet you have been silent on the writing of Nick Bostrom, whose
>>simulation arguments MANDATE that there be a system operator, i.e. a
>>'God' to have created this universe if it is indeed a simulation. I'll
>>note that you failed to respond to this point in my post. Please do
>>respond now.
>
> I am much more pedestrian than Nick Bostrom. I am also at a complete loss
> to understand what he means by a "system operator" (i.e., a "God"). I
> MANDATE that there be proof (or rhyme or reason), and if and when there is
> incontrovertible evidence ... I'll skip my skiff and join you all on the the
> God Ship Lollipop.
A system operator is not a God, it is a system operator. A Corbinian
Otaku (see http://sl4.org/archive/0304/6368.html) is not God, it is a
Corbinian Otaku. As Damien Broderick put it: "Gods are ontologically
distinct from creatures, or they're not worth the paper they're written on."
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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