Re:Is Intelligence Self-Limiting?
by stcredzero on Saturday March 10, 2012 @04:03PM
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Everything we know about genetic algorithms would lead us to believe that evolution has found an upper limit -- but only in a very specific context with respect to the environment, available resources, and evolutionary baggage.
Everything I know about the development of technology leads me to believe that any given trans-human AI will also somehow be a local maxima.
We have not converged.
Re:Is Intelligence Self-Limiting?
by randallsquared on Saturday March 10, 2012 @07:29PM
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If you consider a million canine geniuses at a hundredfold speedup, I think the problem becomes clear: they wouldn't even match one human. What you've described is a civilization, effectively, and while a civilization can accomplish much that a single member cannot, they're still not more intelligent.
At no point in this thought experiment have we changed the thoughts this person can think. If any of these sped-up million geniuses took an IQ test or something, the score would be the same. And yet, they would seem superhumanly intelligent by any reasonable definition of the phrase.
I doubt that evolution -- with a crazy biological substrate, no less -- somehow managed to find an upper limit on intelligence.