> And size doesn't even correlate with intelligence. Tell that to Homo erectus. Yeah, whales don't have advanced technology, but they didn't evolve facility w

> And size doesn't even correlate with intelligence. Tell that to Homo erectus. Yeah, whales don't have advanced technology, but they didn't evolve facility with opposable thumbs to manipulate their environment. > You can't grow your brain as large as you want. There are physical limits on power consumption, power dissipation, and organisational complexity. Whales show that biological brains could be 6x larger. As for electronic brains, I don't know how large the initial Einstein-brain would be. But if delays from Ethernet interconnect are permissible for intra-brain activity, then your brain could occupy a large datacenter. > It's even debatable if you can grow an Einstein. What if GI is NP-hard? I did state that "getting to a computer Einstein" was where skepticism might apply. Nevertheless, nature managed to do it by accident. Are humans NP-hard? They exist. Obviously they can be implemented somehow. You don't need to simulate a particular existing human perfectly; it just needs to be close enough to the way a human brain could work. If you need an initial state for the brain, maybe you could create an artificial environment (i.e. with only machines, for easy simulation) that a hundred actual humans grew up in to the point where they developed language, verify that those humans later became functional adults; and then simulate an embryo growing up in that environment as well, and start evaluating the results and iterating. Kind of fun to think about. > "What if we made a golem? We could do anything! What if we put ourselves into the golem? We could live forever!" The data that computers contain is easy to copy—by design. I think this will be a property of all computers in the future, except possibly quantum computers that always keep lots of data in a superposition (or computers that, for security reasons, are designed to be uncopyable)—and none of the existing neural nets are quantum computers. So copying plus backups or RAID is approximately guaranteed to cover the "live forever" part. Most of what I've said is based solely on the assumption that we develop a computer program that simulates an Einstein, plus common facts about computer programs.