XiXiDu comments on Ben Goertzel: The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: XiXiDu 07 November 2010 04:35:23PM 0 points [-]

Designers can guide evolution but it is still evolution that creates novelty.

Whatever intelligence is, it can't be intelligent all the way down. It's just dumb stuff at the bottom. — Andy Clark

Intelligence is a process facilitated by evolution. Even an AGI making perfect use of some of our most novel algorithms wouldn't come up with something novel without evolution. See Bayesian Methods and Universal Darwinism.