snarles comments on Be a Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

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Comment author: snarles 25 May 2010 10:48:57AM 0 points [-]

Expert systems would be faster still. For AGI to be justified in this case, you would need a task that required both speed and creativity.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 25 May 2010 12:59:03PM 1 point [-]

I imagine being very fast would be a great help in quite a few creative tasks. Off the top of my head, being able to develop new features in software in seconds instead of days would be a significant competitive advantage.