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lessdazed 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: lessdazed 17 November 2011 04:30:47PM 1 point [-]

After that, this machine could improve its own intelligence faster and better than humans can

After that, this machine could improve its own intelligence faster and better than humans can improve human intelligence(?)

After that, this machine could improve its own intelligence faster and better than humans can improve the machine's intelligence(?)

After that, this machine could improve its own intelligence faster and better than humans could improve the machine's intelligence.

the machine quickly becomes

the machine would quickly become

...breaks down.

...breaks down. The idea that the future will be unpredictable after the creation of sufficiently intelligent machines is the second meaning often intended by "technological singularity".