On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:48:00PM -0700, Matt Mahoney wrote: > The problem is that an intelligent RSI worm might be millions of > times faster than a human once it starts replicating.
Yes, but the proposed means of finding it, i.e. via evolution and random mutation, is hopelessly time consuming. e.g. evolution of prokaryotes to humans took a billion years, despite being massively parallel. Seems to me that running evolutionary algos on he inernet wll take similar time-scales. However, once you have evolved humans, you can side-step evolution, and start engineering instead. Much faster that way: a russian can design a virus faster than an evolutionary algo can find one. (the russian might use an evolutionary algo in thier toolkit, of course) So the real question is "what is the minimal amount of intelligence needed for a system to self-engineer improvments to itself?" Some folks might argue that humans are just below that threshold. --linas ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=48582803-2ecccb
