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I see the resemblance, but for perpetual motion machines, we have an actual physical law, the 2nd law of thermodynamics, that makes it impossible. As far as I

I see the resemblance, but for perpetual motion machines, we have an actual physical law, the 2nd law of thermodynamics, that makes it impossible. As far as I know, we can't yet disprove that a self-improving AI will become more intelligent than it starts as. I'm not trying to say that it is likely or that I believe it will happen. Just that we can't disprove it yet, unlike perpetual motion devices. EDIT: corrected from 3rd to 2nd law of thermodynamics.

majoe 3y ago
Small nitpick: I think you mean the second law of thermodynamics. Also the second law of thermodynamics is an empirical law. It is based on observations and not proven. To say, that a perpetual motion machine can't exist because of the 2nd law, is circular logic, since the 2nd law was established precisely because a perpetual motion machine was never observed. That's from the POV of thermodynamics, though, you can show with statistical mechanics, that the probability for a process that defies this laws goes to zero.