Re: P-zombies in the NY Times

From: Tom McCabe (rocketjet314@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 21:58:18 MDT


The guy who wrote this article, George Johnson, is a
well-known futurist writer (http://talaya.net/). He
has not posted on SL4, at least not under his own
name.

 - Tom

--- Eric Rauch <erauch@gmail.com> wrote:

> So it looks like the Science times is continuing to
> explore the possibly
> illusory nature of reality, discussing brains in
> vats, p-zombies, and other
> SL-4ish stuff.
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/science/21magic.html?_r=1&ref=science&pagewanted=printPõ/
>
> Is a science times editor on the SL-4 list or
> something?
>
> Also if this is a simulation doesn't that make us a
> boxed AI? Didn't you
> guys decide that it would be tough to keep an AI in
> a box?
>

       
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