Lumifer comments on Superintelligence 5: Forms of Superintelligence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 14 October 2014 09:30:18PM 5 points [-]

Yet we had Newton and Aristotle.

Compare the complexity of F=MA to string theory. The difficulty of science is going up by orders of magnitude as the low hanging fruit are eaten.

yet we do not have 1000 Mozarts or 1000 Beethovens.

We have over 1000 genres of music. Sure, not everyone can be recognised as the best musician of a generation by definition, but I think we could arguably be producing 1000 times more good music than at the time of Mozart.

Comment author: Lumifer 14 October 2014 11:43:38PM 4 points [-]

Compare the complexity of F=MA to string theory.

Don't forget to compare their usefulness as well X-)