stcredzero comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: stcredzero 10 July 2012 01:20:10AM 0 points [-]

Which god? If by "God" you mean "something essentially perfect and infallible," then yes.

That one. Big man in sky invented by shepherds does't interest me much. Just because I'm a better optimizer of resources in certain contexts than an amoeba doesn't make me perfect and infallible. Just because X is orders of magnitude a better optimizer than Y doesn't make X perfect and infallible. Just because X can rapidly optimize itself doesn't make it infallible either. Yet when people talk about the post-singularity super-optimizers, they seem to be talking about some sort of Sci-Fi God.

Comment author: faul_sname 10 July 2012 01:30:41AM *  0 points [-]

Y'know, I'm not really sure where that idea comes from. The optimization power of even a moderately transhuman AI would be quite incredible, but I've never seen a convincing argument that intelligence scales with optimization power (though the argument that optimization power scales with intelligence seems sound).

Comment author: thomblake 10 July 2012 06:22:27PM 0 points [-]

but I've never seen a convincing argument that intelligence scales with optimization power

"optimization power" is more-or-less equivalent to "intelligence", in local parlance. Do you have a different definition of intelligence in mind?

Comment author: faul_sname 10 July 2012 10:09:06PM 0 points [-]

One that doesn't classify evolution as intelligent.

Comment author: thomblake 11 July 2012 01:49:22PM 0 points [-]

So the nonapples theory of intelligence, then?

Comment author: faul_sname 11 July 2012 03:52:54PM 1 point [-]

More generally, a theory that requires modeling of the future for something to be intelligent.