From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 07:14:13 MDT
Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> > Uploads, cyborgs, mutants, transspecies, simulations, and discorporates are
> > not transhuman unless they are smarter than Homo sapiens sapiens. A
> > transhuman is a transhuman mind.
>
> Please narrow down what "smarter" means here. Would you
> consider an uploaded human mind that operated 1000 times faster
> than before to be "smarter"?
I would consider ver to be "weakly transhuman" until such time as
self-modification or nondeteriorative aging rendered vis thought processes
substantially different from my own, after which ve would be "strongly
transhuman". (Terminology due to Vinge 1993.)
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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