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>the belief that superhuman intelligence (even if such a thing could be defined and realised) results in godlike powers My biggest criticism along these lines
by scoofy 6mo ago
>the belief that superhuman intelligence (even if such a thing could be defined and realised) results in godlike powers
My biggest criticism along these lines is the assumption that infinite intelligent means infinite knowledge. Knowledge is limited by the speed of experimentation. A lot of those experiments are extremely expensive (like CERN), and even then, they need to be repeated and verifiable.
You can't just assume that a super intelligence would know whether the Higgs boson exists or not. It can't know until it builds a collider.
- bamboozled 6mo agoIf you were 10x smarter than anyone on earth, then I’m sure you might be able to conceive a cheaper experiment / device than the LHC?
- seba_dos1 6mo agoWhat makes you so sure? I see no reason to believe so. Not every limitation comes from lack of insight.
- scoofy 6mo agoYou're assuming infinite knowledge. Infinite intelligence does not imply infinite knowledge. There are real philosophical problems with that. Many of the basic information for the standard model may be wrong or build on incorrect data. Which would be all the information an infinitely intelligent AI would have to work with.