From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 22:53:51 MDT
From: Robert J. Bradbury
Subject: Re: ExI principles: people left behind?
...All I am saying, and I am sad that it makes you "sad, and frightened"
but someone has to face what I perceive as the spectre of the Pied
Piper...
I am not sad or frightened, for I know my good
friend Robert has no nukes and is unlikely to
be elected president of any of the nations that
have them.
Robert is not actually proposing nuking anyone
but trying to make a dramatic point, that inaction
on our part toward the singularity is costing
many lives. I know this for I know Robert to be
a gentle and charitable soul.
I would suggest rephrasing the question
in a different context, such as game theory.
...Where do you stand on the "Deep Blue" preservation effort? Should we
not anticipate it being only a few decades before this software
(?intelligence?) is lost forever? After all it did defeat the best human
chess player in the world... Robert
Interesting question from the point of view of
computing power vs better algorithms. IBM will
most likely intentionally destroy Deep Blue if
possible, for this program on a supercomputer
could probably now be scalped by state of the
art chessware running on a current laptop. This
would not be good for supercomputer sales, should
this lesson be reinforced: pay a jillion dollars
now, or wait 7 years and pay a thousand.
spike
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