From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Thu Mar 11 1999 - 14:37:07 MST
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote,
"If computing power doubles every 18 months, what happens when computers are
doing the research?"
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If powerful computers ever do research to double computer power, then why
not have computers do research on what happens when computers do the
research?
"If technology is produced by intelligence, what happens when intelligence
is improved by technology?"
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Can technology sufficiently improve intelligence, so that hyper-intelligence
can find better things to do than to produce technology?
Cheers,
--J. R.
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