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The Human Biological Advantage Over AI

I've completed the first full draft of the subject paper, found here, and would be most grateful for comments of any kind. The origin is my realization it would really help to have an intellectual foundation beyond personal interest for the importance of avoiding x-risk. It is easy to say...

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The Human Biological Advantage Over AI

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The Human Biological Advantage Over AI

Hi Kave, fair point. Please find the full abstract below, hope this helps. I fully understand this goes against conventional thinking on AI - software can do anything you fool! However, there are complexity bounds to the capabilities of software, and I make the case that the capabilities of human DNA, after being trained for 3 billion years, and the central nervous system it creates, exceed the practical capabilities of software for any computer less than the size of our solar system. As I say in the paper, the complexity makes NP-completeness look simple.

ABSTRACT: An AI will not be able to understand this paper. And neither will a human being, unless they... (read 379 more words →)

The Human Biological Advantage Over AI

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I've completed the first full draft of the subject paper, found here, and would be most grateful for comments of any kind.

The origin is my realization it would really help to have an intellectual foundation beyond personal interest for the importance of avoiding x-risk. It is easy to say that x-risk would be bad because we humans would rather not go extinct as a matter of personal preference. It is much more powerful to say that humans have unique capabilities that AI systems will never have, and so we should be preserved because it would be a tragedy for the universe to lose those unique capabilities. My paper puts this case on... (read more)

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