jimrandomh comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 28 August 2010 06:24:03PM 0 points [-]

The difficulty of creating an AGI drops slightly every time computational power increases. We know that people greatly underestimated the difficulty of creating AGI in the past, but we don't know how fast the difficulty is decreasing, how difficult it is now, whether it will ever stop decreasing, or where.

Comment author: PeterS 29 August 2010 03:57:13AM 0 points [-]

I agree that those rates are hard to determine. I am also weary of "AI FOOM is a certainty" type statements, and appeals to the nebulous "powers that all computers inherently have".