On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Logan Streondj <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Best way of proving AGI in an undeniable fashion, is to have "wild" AGI's >> > robots running around self-replicating in the environment. Admitedly most >> > wild organisms have brains significantly larger than those of their >> > domestic counter-parts, so we may develop domestic AGI's first. >> >> No, that is the best way to wipe out humanity. > > seriously that's just fear mongering. > Computers have a different ecological niche then that of biology, > they are better suited for cold dry environments, like polar deserts.
I'm referring to the threat of self replicating nanotechnology. http://www.foresight.org/nano/Ecophagy.html Do you think this is a serious threat? We can design self-replicators for whatever niche we want. I am concerned in particular that we can already produce solar cells with 10% to 20% efficiency, but plants currently convert only 0.1% of the sunlight that reaches the Earth into chemical energy. It would seem that an accidental release of nanotechnology could easily out-compete plants, thus removing the bottom of the food chain, even if it is not their intention to kill us. >> And no, self >> replication + control is harder than self replication alone. It >> requires more intelligence. >> > that's plain false, as demonstrated by this image > http://sensualanimist.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/picture-0041.jpg > domestication of animals decreases brain size by about 10-30% That's interesting. I didn't know that, but I can confirm it. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02436333?LI=true And that seems to be bad news for our hopes of controlling AI. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
