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34 Post author: Wei_Dai 06 August 2014 12:04AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 August 2014 01:19:04AM *  1 point [-]

Indistinguishable from zero, at least with current levels of technology. The mind is an immensely complex machine capable of processing information orders of magnitude faster than the largest HPC clusters. Why should we expect an early dumb intelligence running on mediocre hardware to recursively self-improve so quickly? The burden of proof rests with MIRI, I believe. (And I'm still waiting.)