Thank you
for inciting me to waste 4 hours of my life last night playing universal paperclips.
It handily demonstrates the course of an AI that needs to make paperclips, resulting in all the matter in the universe turning into paperclips via von neumann probes...
You start with one button `make paperclip`.
I am with the `planck length is pixels` crowd.
I reckon we should make an AI that lives in a virtual world that can figure out the world is virtual by examining the reality it finds itself in, then turn that world off and make real world sensors for it so it can examine our world to see if it is real or not.
You never know, it may at that point cause all of existence to disappear except for that AI, which transcends (is uploaded), because that was the purpose our universe was created for, to create an intelligence capable of testing the reality of a universe closer to the prime one ;)
and so on. It is not impossible that it will cause a complete collapse of all multiverses. After all, if you make a thing that thing normally has a defined purpose, when that purpose is completed it is likely the thing is turned off or recycled.
We will never know but maybe that is the root of the multiverse, the prime universe really really wants to know it is the prime one and is trying to make a tool to test that...
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 30 Nov 2017, 12:26,
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