On 1/2/2018 3:11 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
I think you are assuming the simulation can be
deterministic...which it can't.
I make no assumptions on this. Watching life on any random planet
evolve should be as illuminating as wandering the cosmos to happen
upon a random planet with life on it to watch it evolve. The problem
is one of these activities takes billions of years to do.
But watching one randomized evolution will mostly produce lifeless
planets. So one would want to do Monte Carlo simulations to get a
statistically significant range of interesting planets. Thus increasing
the size of the problem by a factor of M^N where M is the size of the
statistical sample you want and N is the number of variables to define a
"world".
Further, there are no limits to what it could explore. It could,
for example, explore possible planets in universes with different
laws of physics. There is no physical way for the intelligence to
ever visit these places, but they are not out of sight from an
intelligence so vast. And if mathematical realism is true, these
discovered places represent genuine discoveries, rather than
imaginings. There are unlimited riches available in the universe
of possibilities of mathematics. An ultraintelligence could no
doubt spend many eons searching through this space, finding new
connections between things, in its effort to learn everything.
But why is it motivated to learn anything at all? Are we
supposing that humans programmed this in and the Supeintelligence
can't change it?
Whatever its goals may be, they are not harmed and likely helped by
increased knowledge, creativity, intelligence, efficiency and
computational power.
A super intelligence that doesn't have the goal of maximizing it
knowledge is likely be displaced by the superintelligences which do.
How so? According to your theory they are just interested in
mathematical knowledge. Are you supposing they would compete for
energy/entropy? and hence enter into warfare?
Brent
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