Tiiba2 comments on On Doing the Impossible

3Eliezer_Yudkowsky06 October 2008 03:13PM

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Tiiba206 October 2008 08:35:30PM1 point [-]

"""A superintelligence will more-likely be interested in conservation. Nature contains a synopsis of the results of quadrillions of successful experiments in molecular nanotechnology, performed over billions of years - and quite a bit of information about the history of the world. That's valuable stuff, no matter what your goals are."""

My guess is that an AI could re-do all those experiments from scratch within three days. Or maybe nanoseconds. Depending on whether it starts the moment it leaves the lab or as a Jupiter brain.