From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 11:11:03 MDT
Eugene writes:
> Augmented reality allows you to do some stuff humans simply can't do
> (enhancement of sensorics, mapping of new modi into existing senorics,
> total documentation track, remembrance agent, telepresence, canned
> knowledge cuing behaviour), including increased performance in specific
> tasks (like, say, industrial and military automation control), but it
> doesn't actually make you smarter in the degree as envisioned by Vinge.
> You wouldn't actually do much better on a standard IQ test (unless you're
> cheating using your remembrance agent).
Right, take a look at http://www.kalva.demon.co.uk/putnam/putn00.html,
the year 2000 Putman exam, with answers. See if you can find even
a single one of these questions that could plausibly be answered by a
substantial fraction of a junior high school class, armed with augmented
reality internet access and fancy math software, even if they'd used
these enhancements since they were babies.
Hal
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