RobinHanson comments on Dreams of AI Design - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: RobinHanson 27 August 2008 12:39:06PM 3 points [-]

Eliezer, if designing planes had turned out to be "really fricking hard" enough, requiring "uncomfortably high standards" that mere mortals shouldn't bother attempting, humans might well have flown first by emulating birds. Whole brain emulation should be doable within about a half century, so another approach to AI will succeed first only it is not really really fricking hard.