Tim_Tyler comments on Dreams of AI Design - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 August 2008 11:28PM

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 27 August 2008 07:05:55AM 3 points [-]

Re: Simply mimicking the human brain in an attempt to produce intelligence is akin to scavenging code off the web to write a program. Will you understand well how the program works? No. Will it work? If you can hack it, very possibly.

Except that this is undocumented spaghetti code which comes with no manual, is written in a language for which you have no interpreter, was built by a genetic algorithm, and is constructed so that it disintegrates.

The prospective hacker needs to be more than brave, they need to have no idea that other approaches are possible.