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Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by phailhaus on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:36PM (#14206743)
> just like you do not get a human just by throwing a lot of organic molecules and water in one place.

Well, not unless you have a couple billion years to sit around.

Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by aetherson on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:59PM (#14206940)
It's worse than that! It's a couple of billion years, and a planet's worth of organic molecules and water.

And, there's a least some evidence that it's even worse than that -- intelligence does not appear to be common in the universe. So it might well be a couple of billion years * a million planets worth of organic molecules and water (or a hundred million planets. Or a billion planets).