From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 22:06:27 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 08:06 pm, Brian Atkins wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> That only tests the ideas in VR. Testing in reality takes longer. It
> is easy to restart VR if it crashes. Reality is harder to recover. No
> matter how fast the VR goes, reality will always lag behind. VR will
> keep getting faster and faster, while reality continues to lag farther
> and farther behind. This is why I predict that realtime testing and
> implementation will increasingly become the bottleneck of future
> technology.
>
You're missing my point, which is that something as "super-smart" and "super-
fast" as you were talking about should be able to make the VR realistic
enough (hence my use of the word "emulate") to completely do any needed
testing in that arena. Or do you believe uploading is impossible? The
same level of emulation capabilities are required in either case- if it
can do one it can do the other it would seem?
-- Brian Atkins Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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