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SL4: Re: Alpha-Point computing

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>Actually, if I recall correctly, I picked up the phrase (and concept) >"Alpha Point" from _The Spike_ - it's "Alpha Line" that is my own >invention. I didn't know that you were the originator, though. I should clarify that at once: `Alpha Point', cited in THE SPIKE, is a coinage of Anders Sandberg: < Still more delightfully bizarre is a playful conjecture based on Tipler's cosmological deity, advanced by Anders Sandberg:         "life evolves towards the Omega Point, but in the vicinity of the final moment `angels', life based on back-propagating causality (which Tipler's theory seems to imply) are created and move backwards through time. They are unobservable in the present, since they are acausal from our perspective... and probably very thinly spread (possibly `extinct'). Eventually conditions become better and better for them, they spread across the universe and use the shear energy to create the Alpha Point--which is isomorphic to the Omega Point and creates `angels' moving forwa

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au) Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 18:50:44 MST Next message: Ben Goertzel: "RE: Steve Harris, "Return of the Krell Machine" (Singularity Article)" Previous message: Paul Hughes: "RE: Steve Harris, "Return of the Krell Machine" (Singularity Article)" In reply to: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky: "Re: Alpha-Point computing" Next in thread: Paul Hughes: "Re: Alpha-Point computing" Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] At 11:45 PM 1/17/02 -0500, Eliezer wrote: >Actually, if I recall correctly, I picked up the…

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