Manfred comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 23 March 2013 12:15:02AM 1 point [-]

Well. I mean, it's quantum. But the ground state is a lump of iron, or maybe a black hole, not a low-energy soap film, so I don't think waiting for quantum annealing will help.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 March 2013 01:41:40AM 1 point [-]

waves soap-covered wire so it settles into low-energy minimum

dies as it turns into iron