Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
by Viliam1234 on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @06:04PM
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I agree that general intelligence is general. But increasing computation speed 1000x could still be something that is available to the machines and not to the humans, simply because electrons are faster than neurons. Also, how specifically would you 1000x increase human memory?
Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
by tshaddox on Thursday August 14, 2025 @11:13AM
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The first way we increased human memory by 1000x was with books. Now it’s mostly with computers.
Electronic AGI might have a small early advantage because it’s probably easier for them to have high-speed interfaces to computing power and memory, but I would be surprised if the innovations required to develop AGI wouldn’t also help us interface our biology with computing power and memory.
In my view this isn’t much less concerning than saying “AGI will have a huge advantage in physical strength because of powerful electric motors, hydraulics, etc.”
I think what's more plausible is that there is general intelligence, and humans have that, and it's general in the same sense that Turing machines are general, meaning that there is no "higher form" of intelligence that has strictly greater capability. Computation speed, memory capacity, etc. can obviously increase, but those are available to biological general intelligences just like they would be available to electronic general intelligences.