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Comment author: timtyler 25 March 2011 07:33:15PM *  3 points [-]

Chalmers' formalization of Good's intelligence explosion argument. Good's 1965 paper was important, but it presented no systematic argument; only hand-waving. Chalmers breaks down Good's argument into parts and examines the plausibility of each part in turn, considers the plausibility of various defeaters and possible paths, and makes a more organized and compelling case for Good's intelligence explosion than anybody at SIAI has.

I thought Chalmers was a newbie to all this - and showed it quite a bit. However, a definite step forward from zombies. Next, see if Penrose or Searle can be recruited.