On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:56:24PM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > But the constraints of the problem are no less a legitimate part of
We're all solving the same problem: sustainable self-replication long-term. Artificial systems so far are only instruments (though they do evolve in the human culture context), but things do change when the tools become persons. > the problem than the rest of it. If you're free to solve the problem > "win at chess using just the formal rules of the game" by redefining > it to "win at chess using any means possible", you may as well > redefine it to "go sit on the beach and read a book". Some of them will do that. The others will go out, and spread over all accessible spacetime. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- 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=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
