From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Wed Jun 19 2002 - 11:02:57 MDT
In a message dated 6/19/02 0:59:38, sentience@pobox.com writes:
>It doesn't take much thinking at all to work around Algernon's
>Law - evolution really isn't all that smart and there are many things we
>can
>do that are not accessible to it - but you do have to put in those few
>extra seconds.
Well, there must be thousands of people who've put years into figuring out
how to make things smarter with chemicals and recently gene engineering.
Rather few results so far - caffeine is a modest memory boost, etc.
That's teraseconds, not just a few.
If it's evolutionarily accessible, it's been tried. If not, we really have no
idea what it's going to do - the best option is trial and error and hope the
deleterious consequences show up early.
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