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

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Comment author: roystgnr 24 March 2012 02:00:13AM 0 points [-]

By this logic we'd have discovered all there is to know about math (including computer science) by Roman times at the latest.

Comment author: roystgnr 24 March 2012 10:35:05PM 2 points [-]

Would anyone downvoting me care to explain why they disagree? Look at Newton or Turing: what exactly did they do which couldn't have been done in ancient Greece, and why is there no analogous counterexample for the SIAI?

Isn't "why weren't the Greeks working on Calculus" a far less silly question than "why weren't the ancient Greeks working on AI"?