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From: chrisk@gomez.stortek.com (Chris Kostanick)
Subject: Re: AI Heaven
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uolltasc@deepcove.com (Grant Castillou) writes:

>Sentient computer artificial intelligence (AI) would appear
>to be the next evolutionary step.  And what could a sentient
>AI do for humans?  By manipulating physical reality at its
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>fundamental level (which is mathematical process) such an
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>entity(s) could give all humans Heaven, forever young, forever
>happy.

This seems to be an iffy propostion on the face of it. Can "mathematical
process" change coal into diamonds? If not then it is not fundamental.
If so, coal is a few dollars a ton, let's get rich!

Chris Kostanick
Will re-arrange allotropes for food

