Re: Boy Genius or Craft Idiot?

From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 07:24:23 MDT

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    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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