wnoise comments on The Design Space of Minds-In-General - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wnoise 07 January 2011 11:53:24PM 0 points [-]

If we're talking about conditions that don't correlate well with particular classes of material things, sure.

I think that needs a bit of refinement. Having lots of food correlates quite well with food. Yet no one here wants to tile the universe with white rice. Other people are a necessity for a social circle, but again few want to tile the universe with humans (okay, there are some here that could be caricatured that way).

I think we all want to eventually have the entire universe able to be physically controlled by humanity (and/or its FAI guardians), but tiling implies a uniformity that we won't want. Certainly not on a local scale, and probably not on a macroscale either.

Computronium actually raises even more questions.

Right, which is why I borught it up as one of the few reasonable counterexamples. Still, it's the programming makes a difference between heaven and hell.