Dmytry comments on Scenario analysis: semi-general AIs - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dmytry 23 March 2012 06:03:32AM 0 points [-]

I wonder what happens if you can graft monkey brains together. As far as the evidence goes, Shakespeare, or Einstein, is just a bigger monkey with especially big brain.

Comment author: DanielLC 23 March 2012 04:35:57PM 1 point [-]

If it were that easy, it wouldn't be semi-general, now would it?

In any case, I don't see why adding computing power would be much different than adding time. In fact, I'd expect adding time would be better. Anything you can do with two processers in parallel you can do with one in twice the time by doing one thread after the other. The reverse isn't true.

Comment author: Dmytry 23 March 2012 04:44:52PM 1 point [-]

Twice the time, and twice the space. In any case, it does not work very well like this for brains, where you for some unknown reason fail at remembering more than ~7 objects in short term memory. Cut it to 3, and you may not be able to think many thoughts; add some small tweaks, and you may be as smart as Einstein.