Doug_S. comments on Hold Off On Proposing Solutions - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 October 2007 03:16AM

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Comment author: Doug_S. 18 October 2007 12:14:35AM 13 points [-]

Completely useless methods for building a general intelligence:

Method 1: Put some bacteria on a lifeless planet with liquid water. Wait until one evolves.

Method 2: Find a fertile human of each gender and induce them to mate. Wait nine months.