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This makes me wonder about AGI and super intelligences. Why would our brains be able to engineer something more intelligent than our brains? The only room seem

• pixl97 2y ago
  I mean, people working together quite often overcome the limitations of one brain, especially when those working together are driven towards that goal.
• NiloCK 2y ago
  This is a reasonable angle, but recall that some sunlight, dirt, and water managed (with a lot of compute) to emit something smarter than the sum of its parst.
• barfbagginus 2y ago
  Let's generalize the question. Why are our brains able to engineer machines that produce forces greater than a human body? Because they understand the forces, and set them into motion with tiny efforts to build mechanisms that eventually unleash and reform large amounts of energy, creating the force. And what if intelligence is another kind of force that can be created by taking tiny, human efforts, building a machine, then pumping huge amounts of energy into it, outputting the intelligent force? Or let's consider evolution. How could it create intelligent brains from single celled organisms? Incrementally, as the organisms randomly accumulated mechanisms of adaptability and eventually sensing and cognition. In the first view we see ourselves as engineers, building a vast engine that, through its sheer size and energy, and our basic understanding of fundamental laws of intelligence , produces an intelligent force greater than a human mind. In the second view, we see ourselves as blind watchmakers, jamming AI components together at random, until, by accident, we get something smarter.