Yosarian2 comments on The impact of whole brain emulation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Yosarian2 16 May 2013 03:02:15PM 0 points [-]

That's Eliezer's claim, but other people think that EM's might be the first type of true artificial intelligence. It depends how far we are away from solving the software problems of creating a GAI from scratch, and the truth is no one really know the answer to that.

Comment author: timtyler 18 May 2013 01:10:43AM *  0 points [-]

It depends on an ability to compare the difficulty of the two paths.

To me this seems to be a much more practical task - even if it is relatively challenging to put an absolute scale on either of them.