gRR comments on Tools versus agents - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 May 2012 01:00PM

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Comment author: gRR 17 May 2012 12:53:53PM 1 point [-]

By (super-)intelligence I mean EY's definition, as a powerful general-purpose optimization process. It does not need to actually know about natural language or our universe to be AI-complete. A potential to learn them is sufficient. Abstract mathematics is arbitrarily complex, so sufficiently powerful optimization process in this domain will have to be sufficiently general for everything.

Comment author: jacob_cannell 17 May 2012 01:52:26PM 0 points [-]

In theory we could all live inside an infinite turing simulation right now. In practise any super-intelligences in our universe will need to know of our universe to be super-relevant to our universe.