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Kaj_Sotala comments on Heading off a near-term AGI arms race - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 23 August 2012 07:27:12AM *  3 points [-]

Our evolutionary history would seem to support this view - to a first approximation, it would seem to me like general intelligence effectively evolved by stacking one narrow-intelligence module on top of another.

Spiders are pretty narrow intelligence, rats considerably less so.

Comment author: JulianMorrison 24 August 2012 10:14:28PM 0 points [-]

And legoland is built of stacking bricks. But try deriving legoland by generalizing a 2x2 blue square.