Re: answers I'd like from an SI

From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2007 - 15:23:29 MST


--- Jef Allbright <jef@jefallbright.net> wrote:

> On 11/12/07, Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > A superintelligence would know the complete state of your brain. You
> would
> > not need to ask it anything. It would already know your questions. It it
> > chooses to, it could answer by reprogramming your brain.
>
> Ah, further confirmation that an intelligence of effectively infinite
> power was assumed. Again, my apologies, My mistake.

No, my mistake. I assumed that as soon as slightly smarter than human
intelligence is developed, that godlike intelligence would follow quickly.
But maybe I should not. Godlike intelligence will be (or is) invisible to us.

-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com



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