AspiringRationalist comments on AI prediction case study 4: Kurzweil's spiritual machines - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 14 March 2013 10:48AM

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Comment author: AspiringRationalist 16 March 2013 01:15:28AM 1 point [-]

Can you provide a brief definition for it? I couldn't find any by googling.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 March 2013 10:31:08AM 2 points [-]

Tasmania fell into a situation where technologies were lost - people did not know the technologies their ancestors possessed (such as for boat building), even if these skills would have remained useful. The reason seemed to be the low population didn't allow the presence of enough specialists.