From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 19:40:45 MDT
>
> In a message dated 6/17/02 17:08:15, brian@posthuman.com writes:
>
> >However, I think what you're saying there doesn't make
> complete sense.
> >It's
> >the part about the "super-smart" AI that bugs me. If an AI
> has grown into
> >superintelligence then quite likely it is capable of
> constructing enough
> >computronium to let it fully /emulate/ the whole planet if
> necessary to
> >test
> >out its new tech ideas much more quickly than realtime.
>
> Trivially, if the AI or its computronium have any impact on the world,
> it can't fully emulate the planet due to Godelization issues.
> In any case,
> the best computer on the planet can't yet even fold a large
> protein by
> emulation. Emulation of just one human being to that level
> (which actually
> isn't good enough for emulating catalysis) is thus over 50 years away.
> By Kurzweil's estimates (hardly gospel, of course) it would
> be about as smart
> as every human being on the planet combined - clearly a
> superintelligence -
> and yet still Vastly short of being able to emulate the biosphere.
>
...but way more than smart enough to enhance its own intelligence, one would
imagine.
Emlyn
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