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Imagine a human genius. Now imagine that same genius with a brain that thinks the same thoughts, but a hundred times faster. Now imagine a million instances of
by pjscott 15y ago
Imagine a human genius. Now imagine that same genius with a brain that thinks the same thoughts, but a hundred times faster. Now imagine a million instances of that person.
At no point in this thought experiment have we changed the thoughts this person can think. If any of these sped-up million geniuses took an IQ test or something, the score would be the same. And yet, they would seem superhumanly intelligent by any reasonable definition of the phrase.
I doubt that evolution -- with a crazy biological substrate, no less -- somehow managed to find an upper limit on intelligence.
- stcredzero 15y agoEverything we know about genetic algorithms would lead us to believe that evolution has found an upper limit -- but only in a very specific context with respect to the environment, available resources, and evolutionary baggage. Everything I know about the development of technology leads me to believe that any given trans-human AI will also somehow be a local maxima.
- im3w1l 15y agoWe have not converged.
- randallsquared 15y agoIf you consider a million canine geniuses at a hundredfold speedup, I think the problem becomes clear: they wouldn't even match one human. What you've described is a civilization, effectively, and while a civilization can accomplish much that a single member cannot, they're still not more intelligent.