From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 22:08:27 MDT
CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
>
> In general, the possible interactions (and potential deleterious consequences)
> of a change to an intelligence (or any system) should grow faster than the
> intelligence does. It's the old N vs. 2^N Cantor business.
If this is so, then why does evolution, a process of essentially constant
underlying "smartness", appear to have accelerated over time, rather than
slowing down as more complex organisms are created? The above theory would
appear to make predictions which are the diametric opposite of the observed
evidence from anthropology and evolutionary biology.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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