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What are humans specialized in doing? Because it seems to me that humans are pretty good at chess, calculus, social manipulation, flying to the moon, building m
by alfrednachos 9y ago
What are humans specialized in doing? Because it seems to me that humans are pretty good at chess, calculus, social manipulation, flying to the moon, building machines that take us to the bottom of the ocean, discovering fundamental physics, etc. A fish, no matter what environment and upbringing you give it, can't do any of those things. So it seems like there's some dimension in which the human brain is more generally intelligent than a fish's.
- doxos 9y agoThat dimension is still on a thin film around a little ball floating in one of a great number of possible universes within a great number of possible rule systems. Compared to that space, we are quite similar to fish, in terms of the purposes for which our machinery functions. But the question is not, "is intelligence explosion possible?" The question is, "explode into what?"