From: Felix Ungman (felix@aleph.se)
Date: Sun Oct 13 1996 - 00:47:04 MDT
William Kitchen:
>My suspicion is that the
>time between being granted such miraculous machinery, and the emergence
>of superintelligence would be exceedingly short. On the order of weeks
>for one such as myself who only programs occasionally, perhaps only days
>for an experienced programmer who does it as his primary method of
>making a living, possibly even hours for a first class programming
>wizard (especially one with a passion for mathematics).
Rather than critisize your sispicion, I would like to test it. I challenge
anyone on this list to participate in the Intelligence Programming Contest:
Your goal: Write a computer program (in your favourite formal language
that doesn't require more than infinite time to compute), that will result
in human intelligence or better.
I will personally give one of my Power Infintium Personal Computer
to the winner. (I will give it away at the omega point, but submissions
must be postmarked *before* the omega point.)
Felix Ungman
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