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JoshuaZ comments on FAI FAQ draft: What is the Singularity? - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: lukeprog 16 November 2011 07:11PM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 16 November 2011 07:33:22PM *  0 points [-]

Minor formatting issue- in the section on "Event horizon" the url links need spaces between the words so they don't appear as " theevent horizonof" and " thegravitational singularitybreaks". There are some similar issues with some of the italics.

I would also suggest that it may make sense to have a direct link to Eliezer's bit about three schools.

A major part of Kurzweil's approach is the idea that this linear v. exponential issue causes people to underestimate technological change, and this seems worth mentioning.

When you say:

Computers remain far short of human intelligence

this jars slightly with the sentence right before. I would suggest saying "In general, computers remain far short of human intelligence" or something similar.

Comment author: lukeprog 16 November 2011 07:45:08PM 0 points [-]

The formatting issue is actually a LW bug, but I fixed it; thanks.