From: Mike Linksvayer (ml@gondwanaland.com)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 05:29:25 MDT
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 02:35, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Your hidden assumption is that global communication is required, always.
> This is not true for the biological CNS. Your second hidden assumption is
> that the system is a singleton. Instead, it will be most likely a
> hierarchical architecture, a swarm intelligence, or a diverse population.
[...]
> As to 10^6 speedup, of course you wouldn't want a distributed system. But
> we're talking about bootstrap here. The 10^6 speedup is reserved for the
> time when the system designs and builds its own hardware, which is a
> distinctly superhuman stage of development.
Yes and yes. Doesn't need to be anything like an individual human
intelligence, doesn't need to start out faster. If it can self-improve
over relatively unconstrained domains we've got something very special.
Mike Linksvayer
http://gondwanaland.com/ml/
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