From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jun 16 1999 - 14:15:58 MDT
Doug Jones wrote:
>
> By the way, Eliezer, I have a question/quibble/objection to your
> doubled doubling description of the singularity: it ignores hardware
> development cycles. Certainly a fully functional AI could improve
> its own software, but the runaway would be damped by the hardware
> design and fabrication process- smarter code also needs faster
> hardware to run at faster subjective speed.
Do you know that there's an STM connected to the Internet? I don't know
about protein-synthesis machines being connected to the Internet - but
if you're willing to go through snail-mail, you can write a DNA
sequence, email it to someone who mails you the DNA, then send the DNA
to a protein synthesizer in, what, about a week? Probably less if
you're an AI and you're willing to pay for FedEx overnight.
Ever wonder if there's a back door into Zyvex's laboratory equipment
somewhere, with a password only an AI could crack? That's what *I'd* do.
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