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Fri 2008-04-18 09:52
The Infinity Machine
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[identity profile] meihua.livejournal.comFri 2008-04-18 10:58
Actually, I think the hardest problem is finding the universe which contains the AI. I can't think of criteria which would select for universes with AIs.

So, because we're dealing with infinities, that means I'll never find the simulated universe which contains one. :(

Exporting the AI is easy. Once I've found an AI, then I can just ask it to solve the problem of exporting itself. ;)
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[personal profile] simontFri 2008-04-18 11:06
Exporting the AI is easy. Once I've found an AI, then I can just ask it to solve the problem of exporting itself. ;)

Aha, yes, very neat. Drop an emissary into the simulated universe, have it go up to the AI and hand over some English dictionaries and real-world programming textbooks, then you can talk to it sensibly and have it translate its own code into something we can run. Sounds perfectly feasible to me :-)
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