Is Agia a Robot?

Gwern Branwen · 18 Jun 2010, 19:28 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:28:31 -0400
Subject: (urth) Is Agia a Robot?
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:57 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
...
> Another thought: did Agia land, escape, and find Agilus? Or is Urth and
> Agilus her home base? Would it be possible, given what we know of time
> travel in the Urth universe, for a twin pair to stay close in age if they
> want to, when one is a star sailor and would stay young? Probably, since she
> can reverse direction and return to him.
>
> If Agia is a robot, that problem goes away, as she can always look like
> Agilus at any age. But she can still sign onto ships that take her back to
> when Agilus is alive---she could be physically younger than Agilus, or could
> spend decades with Agilus in the process of living hundreds of years to his
> thirty or so.
>
> Stop me if I'm starting to sound as crazy as the rest of you.

As someone who has watched this discussion with skepticism, I can
(re)assure you: you sound no more and no less crazy than everyone
else.

-- 
gwern

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