On 4/22/05, Robert J. Chassell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maru Dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .... > (Why would a non-antiquarian superintelligence bother to reincarnate > us? In this reading, any superintelligence doing research that > involves reincarnating anyone from the past is an antiquarian. Would > an artificially bred or manufactured superintelligence be more likely > to survive conditions near the Big Crunch than others?)
Well, why not? Remember, in this scenario, available computational resources are shooting to infinity- it costs almost the same to not recreate all histories as to recreate them. > And from the inside, if you could get good reason to believe that > you are in one (aside from any anthropic reasoning), then that is > not a very good reincarnation/simulation. Which makes them so hard > to usefully think about. > > Yes, that is what I think. So the notion is unfalsifiable. No- remember also that reincarnations are largely dependant on the Strong AI postulate, i e sentients can be copied and remade. Falsify the postulate... > > From inside a re-incarnation, how would you distinguish between > > one that is not caused by some entity and one that is? > > What I meant was, what if a re-incarnation occurs `naturally' and is > not a simulation? As far as I can see, that notion is unfalsifiable, > too. Ah- you are thinking of religious scenarios, or perhaps Big Universe scenarios where the infinity guarantees by sheer chance a duplicate. Well, you can still reason probablistically. Ex: I can be fairly sure that I am on a real Earth, and am not a freak intelligence spawned by a black hole and staggering improbability, because there are so many more 'me's which are on an Earth than are offspring of black holes and chance, that the odds overwhelmingly favor the Earth 'me's. etc. > -- > Robert J. Chassell ~Maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
