Re: Big Bang is Bunk

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jul 29 2001 - 16:20:53 MDT


"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
> > The Singularity is defined to occur as soon as any greater-than-human
> > intelligence comes into existence - big or small. It has to be genuine,
> > hardware transhumanity, not just humans put together in interesting
> > shapes, but that's it.
>
> Just to clarify, that means greater-than-the-smartest-human intelligence,
> right?
> I mean if it was smarter than, say, dubya bush, that wouldn't be a very big
> deal.

It means, "greater than the smartest human or organization of humans".

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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