Re:The impossibility of intelligence explosion
by munificent on Monday November 27, 2017 @04:46PM
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> Using humanity as the basis of comparison is not sufficient, since human life expectancy and other requirements for survival are not a factor in artificial superintelligence.
Doesn't electrically-driven silicon hardware also have creation and operating costs? Any AI will theoretically need spend electricity convincing its human masters to give it even more electricity. Even if it can use its robot army to build wind farms or whatever, that's time its spending marshaling its robot army and futzing around with aerodynamics instead of contemplating the cosmos.
Its hard drives will expire and need to be replaced. Sure, it could solve that by always having backups of everything it knows, but who is to say that purely lossless backups are actually a more optimal solution to the hardware decay problem than our human lossy strategy?
> AGI can simply clone itself, and begin from exactly where it left off.
Doesn't electrically-driven silicon hardware also have creation and operating costs? Any AI will theoretically need spend electricity convincing its human masters to give it even more electricity. Even if it can use its robot army to build wind farms or whatever, that's time its spending marshaling its robot army and futzing around with aerodynamics instead of contemplating the cosmos.
Its hard drives will expire and need to be replaced. Sure, it could solve that by always having backups of everything it knows, but who is to say that purely lossless backups are actually a more optimal solution to the hardware decay problem than our human lossy strategy?
> AGI can simply clone itself, and begin from exactly where it left off.
Cloning isn't free.