From: Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 17 1996 - 15:05:02 MST
Eliezer Yudkowsky writes:
>The essence of the Singularity is that a smarter being has an
>increased capacity to invent still smarter beings; that's why
>everything goes to infinity. ...
>Computer power doubles every two years.
>Computer power doubles every two *subjective* years.
>Computer power goes to infinity four years after computer researchers
>reach human equivalence.
>Mathematically, I believe it's called a "singularity".
>You don't need enhanced smartness to outrun *any* task no matter
>*how* it scales up, all you need is recursive Moore's Law.
1. Computer power does not equal smartness.
2. You'll need a bit more detailed argument to show that computer power
doubles every two subjective years.
Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
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