If you took an AGI, before it went singulatarinistic[sic?] and tortured it.. a lot, ripping into it in every conceivable hellish way, do you think at some point it would start praying somehow? I'm not talking about a forced conversion medieval style, I'm just talking hypothetically if it would "look" for some god to come and save it. Perhaps delusionally it may create something.
John From: Gary Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] An AI would attempt to understand the universe to the best of it's ability, intelligence and experimentation could provide. If the AI reaches a point in it's developmental understanding where it is unable to advance beyond in it's understanding of science and reality then it will attempt to increase it's intelligence or seek out others of it's kind in the universe with greater knowledge and intelligence it somehow missed. Eventually eons in the future as the universe ages and entropy begins to widely spread the AI in order to escape it's own demise and possibly the demise of it's surviving now immortal creators it will attempt to avoid the death of the universe by using it's godlike knowledge and science to create a new universe and once it has initiated a big bang and sufficient time has passed that inhabitable worlds exists in it's creation it would continue it and it's creators existence in it's newly created universe. If this level of intelligence, power, and creativity was ever achieved then I think it would be hard deny that the AI posessed godlike powers and would perhaps be deserving of the title regardless of what negative historical and religious baggage may still accompany that title. Arthur C. Clarke's Law Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. My Corollary: Any sufficiently advanced being in possession of sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a god. >> Can you explain to me how an AGI or supercomputer could be God? I'd just like to understand (& not argue) - you see, the thought has never occurred to me, and still doesn't. I can imagine a sci-fi scenario where a supercomputer might be v. powerful - for argument's sake, controlling the internet or the the world's power supplies. But it's still quite a leap from that to a supercomputer being God. And yet it is clearly a leap that a large number here have no problem making. So I'd merely like to understand how you guys make this leap/connection - irrespective of whether it's logical or justified - & understand the scenarios in your minds. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=74077641-5cdd81
