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At a certain point it doesn't matter how much smarter you are, the limit on progress is the ability to take action and to make measurements, enough measurements
by hyperion2010 9y ago
At a certain point it doesn't matter how much smarter you are, the limit on progress is the ability to take action and to make measurements, enough measurements so that you can discern whether a subset of those measurements are biased and in what way. As a result I tend to think that in order to get true super human level intelligences they will need to have super human levels of agency, and that is something that is much harder to build and get us meatbags to support than building a really powerful brain in a jar. Building systems with super human agency also isn't something that happens just by accident.
- hyperpallium 9y agoI agree, in the long-term, big-picture, distributed eye and hand is important. e.g. Although relativity could have been deduced from the evidence, first you have to obtain that evidence, by the action of constructing observation devices. But there's nothing to stop centralized computing from having distributed terminal-like i/o devices, cameras and waldos. A cognitive argument for distribution is that a diversity of ideas, developed somewhat in isolation, using their local unique observation and unique action, is more likely to innovate. Many points of view will see more. However, this can be simulated with internal divisions.