Risto_Saarelma comments on A Less Wrong singularity article? - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 17 November 2009 02:15PM

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 18 November 2009 06:06:27AM 5 points [-]

One argument against a hard takeoff is Greg Egan's idea about there not being a strong hierarchy of power in general intelligence, which he goes into here, for example. Would this be worth covering?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 18 November 2009 05:43:29PM 0 points [-]

Definitely so, at least briefly.

Comment author: timtyler 24 November 2009 10:17:40PM -1 points [-]

I don't think that's worth very much. We already have systems which are much more powerful in many areas.