Assume it took me and my team five years to build the AI, after the tests EY described, we finally enable the 'recursively self improve'-flag.
Recursively self improving. Standby... (est. time. remaining 4yr 6mon...)
Six years later
Self improvement iteration 1. Done... Recursively self improving. Standby... (est. time. remaining 5yr 2mon...)
Nine years later
Self improvement iteration 2. Done... Recursively self improving. Standby... (est. time. remaining 2yr 5mon...)
Two years later
Self improvement iteration 3. Done... Recursively self improving. Standby... (e...
So, no, you shouldn't reinvent the wheel. Unless you plan on learning more about wheels, that is.
We've all bought and enjoyed books called 'Optical Illusions'. We all love optical illusions. But that's not what they should call the book. They should call them 'Brain Failures'. Because that what it is: a complete failure of human perception. All it takes is a few clever sketches and our brains can't figure it out.
Transcribed from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAD25s53wmE
Xkcd's Randall Munroe once counted to zero, from both positive, and negative infinity which was no mean feat. Not to be outdone, Eliezer Yudkowsky counted the real numbers between zero and one.
My cultural software tells me to skip over large parts of any long text, if I can sort of guess what the author is trying to say, even though I know I shouldn't. But I'm an old man by internet standards. I at least remember having an attention span.
Some of that’s just a rational response to writing targeted at lower levels of literacy.