cousin_it comments on Hedging our Bets: The Case for Pursuing Whole Brain Emulation to Safeguard Humanity's Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 01 March 2010 01:43:30PM *  3 points [-]

Huh? Lobsters have been exploring their own fitness landscape for quite some time and haven't transcended yet. Evolution doesn't inevitably lead towards intelligence.

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 02 March 2010 01:57:33AM 1 point [-]

I was way too obscure. I meant: turn it into a Godel machine by modifying the lobster program to explore and evaluate the space of altered lobster programs.

Comment author: cousin_it 08 March 2010 07:07:07PM *  1 point [-]

Why do you need a lobster for that? You could start today with any old piece of open source code and any measure of "fitness" you like. People have tried to do this for awhile without much success.