On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 08:51:36AM -0500, Tim Tyler via AGI wrote: > On 21/01/2015 15:29, Logan Streondj via AGI wrote: > >disregarding biology is one of the stupidest things an intelligence > >can do. > > I'm not saying a superintelligence will "disregard" existing ecosystems. > They do contain some knowledge. However, that knowledge will - relatively > quickly become a drop in a teapot - and much of it will be rendered obsolete.
We don't even know how many species there are on the planet, much less how all of them behave and interact with the environment. There is and endless amount of information to be had because it is continually evolving. We relatively recently learned that in the deep dark of the sea, fish use lights to attract each other. That there are creatures which grow to adult form and then grow backwards into polyps. That there are extremophiles living as much as 12 km deep in the crust. Biology is nanotechnology, it is the most successful nanotechnology to date. Living at the limit of what light and nutrients can provide. Nanoarchaeum for instance are smaller than a micron in diameter. > That includes most of the "protein folding" discoveries made by bacteria in > the last four billion years - and our nucleic-acid based storage media. That > stuff will mostly go into the "here's how our ancestors used to do it" bucket > - > and ecosystems will move on to use newer and better tools. Ya, just like atoms right? we'll just stop using atoms, cause you know that's old school. So simple!, we can put it all in a periodic table, everything there is to know about them is done. Time to move onto better stuff. I hope you recognize I'm demonstrating your argument through analogy. -- Logan ------------------------------------------- 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
