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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by Retra on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:47PM (#13241544)
There are if you want to have a functioning computer in the middle of all that energy. There are laws governing heat dispersal (speed of light in only 3 dimensions) and laws governing the collapse of information processing structures into black holes.
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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by darawk on Thursday December 22, 2016 @07:04PM (#13241644)
Sure, but none of those laws would prevent a superintelligence from generating more than enough electricity to power itself, in principle.
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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by TeMPOraL on Thursday December 22, 2016 @10:03PM (#13242484)
Indeed, this seems like pointing to the speed of light as a limit in a discussion about building faster cars.
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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by Retra on Friday December 23, 2016 @09:27AM (#13244839)
AI's powering themselves isn't the objection. Exponential increase in capability is. And that requires you to deal with things like heat dissipation, which are real problems for our current "dumb" computers.
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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by darawk on Friday December 23, 2016 @02:01PM (#13246552)
It's not a huge problem for humans. I see no reason to think that a computer say, 10x as powerful as a human would have major problems with heat dissipation.
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