Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by colechristensen on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:15PM (#13241296)

There's no reason that something else can't exist in the material world, I think the parent is just pointing out the third way is thinking there's something else material outside our current understanding.

If God exists, there's no reason there couldn't be new phyisics describing how his world works.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by thedufer on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:41PM (#13241508)

If the something else is physical but outside of our current understanding, then it doesn't prevent us from creating AI by simply simulating a biological brain. Thus, that is the same as the physicalist view in the context of the argument in question.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by malka on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:56PM (#13241602)

You need to know what tovsimulate though. But we could imagine to create an "ai" from pure meat. Grey matter linked to sensor and ouput systems. Kinda nightmarish

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