Tim_Tyler comments on Optimization and the Singularity - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 June 2008 05:55AM

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 23 June 2008 07:13:39AM -1 points [-]

Intelligence has been at work in evolution for millions of years.

The choices of intelligent agents guide the path which evolution takes - via mechanisms which include the Baldwin effect and sexual selection. Humans are very literally the product of intelligent agents - not blind, mindless forces.