Re: Boy Genius or Craft Idiot?

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 05:53:43 MDT

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    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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