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36 Post author: humpolec 08 January 2011 06:03PM

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Comment author: EdS 16 January 2011 07:02:50PM 0 points [-]

Hmm, learning to fly without replicating a specific bird is analogous to the problem of general AI. This discussion thread started with a claimed analogy between chip simulation and mind uploading, which is more the problem of replicating a specific bird. If I claimed to be able to upload your mind, then proceeded to scan or mince your brain, and then showed your relatives a general AI, they would be unimpressed.

Comment author: timtyler 16 January 2011 07:34:51PM *  0 points [-]

Sure. On the other hand if you show manufacturers, engineers or governments a general AI then some major changes happen - and those are the folk who are most likely to cough up for the required R&D.

Possibly those changes might ultimately include the human brain being scanned and emulated - but chronological order seems as though it may be significant here.