Re: Basic Logic [was Re: Infanticide and Extropy]

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 02:04:56 MDT

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

> Harvey Newstrom wrote:

> Uploads, cyborgs, mutants, transspecies, simulations, and discorporates are
> not transhuman unless they are smarter than Homo sapiens sapiens. A
> transhuman is a transhuman mind.
>

Please narrow down what "smarter" means here. Would you
consider an uploaded human mind that operated 1000 times faster
than before to be "smarter"?

- samantha

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