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

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:07:04 GMT

I don't think that really captures the idea of intelligence. A sufficiently patient calculator can churn out the 10^10th digit of pi by caluclating pi, but an intelligent calculator would figure out how to do it in about a minute on my desktop computer.

The point being that the label "dumb luck," while vaguely accurate, views discovery too much as a black box. Which is sort of ironic from this article.

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