> Talking about systems millions of times more intelligent > than a human is nonsense unless you can define what it is > you're talking about. You can only def

> Talking about systems millions of times more intelligent > than a human is nonsense unless you can define what it is > you're talking about. You can only define things to a certain level. No matter the topic, you could always complain about a lack of definition. xkcd.com/309 comes to mind. Expecting computers to be millions of times faster then humans has some appeal for 2 reasons. 1) Machines are already millions of times more powerful then humans in some tasks. For example mail delivery is now done with the speed of light which travels millions of times faster then a human. 2) Would we consider a million people to be a million times more intelligent than one single person? In some sense, I think so. So when we can clone a brain and we clone it a million times - voila.