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Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by DiThi on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:06PM (#14207824)
As nature itself has shown, it's not necessary to understand it to create it. That's part of what makes it scary: It will probably happen and we can't predict the outcome.
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Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @10:45PM (#14208811)
>As nature itself has shown, it's not necessary to understand it to create it.

Unless intelligence itself conforms to natural principles, unless it "cuts with the grain" of nature's preexisting laws.

Which, frankly, it does. Information theory and thermodynamics are a thing.

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Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by mcguire on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @09:23PM (#14208468)
That describes literally everything.
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