Re: Hello all - My Theory of Everything

2007-01-23 Thread Russell Standish
That doesn't affect my argument. The copied intelligence will also have the same properties as the evolved intelligence. Cheers On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:20:12PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > Le 11-janv.-07, à 15:15, Russell Standish a écrit : > > > I would further hypothesise that all i

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds (correction)

2007-01-23 Thread Jason
Jason wrote: > Jason wrote: > > Here the replication is only the optimal choice for neutral life times. > > If a lifetime is very positive, the 999,999 good lives outweigh the > > one tortured. If the spared lifetimes were very negative, the 999,999 > > lifetimes would only add to the negative

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds (correction)

2007-01-23 Thread Jason
Jason wrote: > Here the replication is only the optimal choice for neutral life times. > If a lifetime is very positive, the 999,999 good lives outweigh the > one tortured. If the spared lifetimes were very negative, the 999,999 > lifetimes would only add to the negative observer moments create

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-23 Thread Jason
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > Jason Resch writes: > Let's say being spared is "neutral" while being tortured is obviously bad, > even > if you are tortured for only a few minutes. Also, assume the intensity of the > torture and the quality of life on being spared is the same in duplication/ > c

Re: Rép : The Meaning of Life

2007-01-23 Thread John M
Or of comp, or of multiple universes, or of. (the list is almost unlimitable). "Proving" is tricky. In many cases SOME accept the backwards argument from phenomena "assigned" to an originating assumption that is now deemed "proven" by it. Some don't. It depends on evidence in one's personal

Re: Rép : The Meaning of Life

2007-01-23 Thread 1Z
Bruno Marchal wrote: > Also, nobody has proved the existence of a primitive physical universe. Or of a Platonia --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send

Re: Rép : The Meaning of Life

2007-01-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 23-janv.-07, à 04:36, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : >> >> When you ask your computer to print a document, the computer typically >> does not search the meaning of the words "print" or "document" in a >> dictionary. Other more subtile self-reference are handled by the >> diagonalization techni