From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2008 - 16:44:46 MST
Lucas Sheehan wrote:
> "True /Artificial Intelligence would bypass problems of biological
> complexity and ethics, growing up on a substrate ideal for initiating
> recursive self-improvement. (fully reprogrammable, ultrafast, the
> /AI's "natural habitat".)" - John Smart
>
>>From - http://sl4.org/wiki/SL4Lexicon/Recursive_Self-Improvement
>
> If I am misquoting please let me know, it's a bit unclear from the
> formating if its a Smart quote or not.
Sure doesn't sound like Smart. More likely to have been adapted from
one of my works somewhere, especially the "natural habitat" phrase,
which I'm pretty sure I used at one point.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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