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

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 15 November 2011 06:51:25AM 0 points [-]

Nothing in what you are talking about needs to be digital per se by any of the usual meanings of digital.

Even in the sense of "running on a digital computer"?

(Historical note: when Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test thought experiment to answer the question "Can machines think?", he defined "machine" to mean what he called a "digital computer", i.e. an implementation of a Turing machine.)