wedrifid comments on A Visualization of Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 23 July 2014 04:18:43AM 2 points [-]

From a technological standpoint, I would have thought that a hybrid of biological and machine intelligence would be likely to have the best aspects of each

Unfortunately the 'biological' part is not too great at recursive self improvement (at the fundamental level). It's a mess. If we merely wanted to create cyborgs with cognitive advantages then this strategy is a no-brainer (except literally). If we are trying to create a superintelligence then the recursive self improvement feature is more or less obligatory.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 25 July 2014 06:39:26PM 2 points [-]

Indeed, the mechanical component is far better at recursive self improvement, which is why I wrote:

Of course, in the end it would transition to a fully or mostly machine intelligence, either through offloading increasingly more cognition to the machine components until the organic brains were only a tiny fraction of the mind, or though using the increased intelligence to develop FAI/WBE.

It also occurs that for a 'hive mind' using the enhanced intelligence to acquire the resources to connect more people to the hive mind counts as quantitative, if not qualitative, biological self improvement.

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