Comment on Why an Intelligence Explosion might be a Low-Priority Global Risk

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:21:57 GMT

The last two points are different though: Intelligence can engage in direct, systematic experimentation. Evolution in contrast only experiments in so far as it happens to stumble across things. Similarly, while you are correct about symbiosis to a limited extent (and there are also examples of horizontal gene transfer), intelligence can look at another solution and without happening to pick up genes or forming a symbiotic relationship can go simply steal a functional strategy.

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