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Comment author: timtyler 31 March 2011 05:30:44PM *  2 points [-]

We got humans with general intelligence, built into a stage where they can start learning from an extremely noisy and chaotic physical environment by a genome that fits on a CD-ROM [...]

Humans are not very good self-improving systems, except on geological timescales. They:

  • Hit a ceiling;
  • Die quickly.
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