>An AI could copy the human brain to achieve human-level AI, but beyond that there are no roads so our hypothetical super-mind is confronted by bignum^bignum co

>An AI could copy the human brain to achieve human-level AI, but beyond that there are no roads so our hypothetical super-mind is confronted by bignum^bignum combinatorial search problems. If you can copy human minds into a machine-world, then you can copy the most intelligent human minds. The most intelligent humans are pretty darn smart, and with no obligations, a surfeit of time, and effective immortality, they may make short work of your claims that intelligence can't be effectively bootstrapped. It's difficult to imagine the inner lives of people much smart than we are. So neither of us can imagine a world occupied by persons belonging to a 300 IQ race of supermen, but there are presently 200 IQ persons, if only as genetic anomalies, and technology already exists sufficient to replicate them an almost arbitrary number of times. The future's so bright I gotta wear shades.