shminux comments on Toward an overview analysis of intelligence explosion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 14 November 2011 04:56:26PM 0 points [-]

their concepts are simply too vague to be updated on new evidence.

Surely a computer simulation of the intelligence explosion can be created, given some simplified assumptions.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 November 2011 12:19:18AM 5 points [-]

Surely a computer simulation of the intelligence explosion can be created, given some simplified assumptions.

This will either require so many simplifying assumptions that it effectively proves nothing, or be as difficult to do as creating the intelligence explosion itself.

Comment author: shminux 16 November 2011 12:41:28AM 0 points [-]

How do you know? Have you done any? Gotta start somewhere.