Nisan comments on The ethics of randomized computation in the multiverse - Less Wrong

8 Post author: lukeprog 22 November 2011 04:31PM

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Comment author: Nisan 23 November 2011 12:52:12AM *  0 points [-]

If that's what we're worried about, then we might as well ask whether it's risky to randomly program a classical computer and then run it.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 23 November 2011 01:07:43AM 0 points [-]

My argument is about utility, but probability is low. On the other hand, with enough computational power a sufficiently clever evolutionary dynamic might well blow up the universe.