From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 07:24:23 MDT
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
> 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."
>
Yes, I understand. That's why I have the quotations around "system
operator" and "God." They stand for "so-called."
Olga
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