Robots Can’t Dance: Why the singularity is greatly exaggerated

Re:Robots Can’t Dance: Why the singularity is greatly exagge... by crististm on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @02:10AM (#8951815)

Yes, this is my argument. But understanding day to day things doesn't need atomic level details. For most things your measurement precision matches a model at a much higher level. You can stop at Newton's or Einstein's equations whenever that fit's your view of reality.

People use that to extrapolate in the other direction, and assume that because Newton's laws can be simulated, you can simulate an atom, thus everything. We don't have a view of reality at subatomic levels that says: "this is it and there's nothing beyond it". You don't know if your simulation of a brain will show an emergent intelligence if simulated with 'float', 'double' or 'infinite'.

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Re:Robots Can’t Dance: Why the singularity is greatly exagge... by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @06:55AM (#8952579)

OK, and could you now explain how you start from not knowing what it takes to emulate a brain and then deduce from that that it's impossible to emulate a brain? Your original argument was a supposed reason why emulation is in fact impossible, not why it might later turn out to be impossible, which is why I (and others) disagree - which you still haven't established, though, as far as I can see.

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