V_V comments on Heading off a near-term AGI arms race - Less Wrong

7 Post author: lincolnquirk 22 August 2012 02:23PM

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Comment author: V_V 23 August 2012 11:04:49PM 3 points [-]

Do you realize that human intelligence evolved exactly that way? A self-swimming fish brain with lots of modules haphazardly attached.

Comment author: Dolores1984 23 August 2012 11:23:24PM 0 points [-]

Evolution and human engineers don't work in the same ways. It also took evolution three million years.

Comment author: V_V 24 August 2012 12:07:11AM 4 points [-]

True enough, but there is no evidence that general intelligence is anything more than a large collection of specialized modules.