Davorak comments on Intelligence Explosion analysis draft: types of digital intelligence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 15 November 2011 02:17:07AM 4 points [-]

"Digital intelligence" seems like an odd choice of terms. Nothing in what you are talking about needs to be digital per se by any of the usual meanings of digital. It would certainly be strange if humans made such an object that wasn't digital but nothing in the definition requires it to be digital.

Comment author: Davorak 15 November 2011 06:26:46AM *  2 points [-]

What about:

digital intelligence has certain advantages (e.g. copyability)

No degradation with iterative copying is a an advantage digital media is often thought to have over analog media. What I think they are trying to convey is perfect reproduction is possible and is a large advantage.

edit:spelling

Comment author: lukeprog 15 November 2011 01:25:18PM 1 point [-]

Right. And there is an entire section later on 'advantages from mere digitality'.