private_messaging comments on General purpose intelligence: arguing the Orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong

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Comment author: private_messaging 16 May 2012 02:40:15PM *  -1 points [-]

Engineering ability suffices:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/cej/general_purpose_intelligence_arguing_the/6lst

Do philosophers have an incredibly strong ugh field around anything that can be deemed 'implementation detail'? Clearly, 'superintelligence' the string of letters can have what ever 'goals' the strings of letters, no objection here. The superintelligence in form of distributed system with millisecond or worse lag between components, and nanosecond or better clock speed, on the other hand...