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Apteris comments on Superintelligence 8: Cognitive superpowers - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Apteris 04 November 2014 05:15:16PM 2 points [-]

I think it will prove computationally very expensive, both to solve protein folding and to subsequently design a bootstrapping automaton. It might be difficult enough for another method of assembly to come out ahead cost-wise.