Alex,

> In all systems i built, i see a specialisation, and i found no way to
> stop it without getting into boring loops. .... To keep the system of
> systems general again, i put more resources on the system. 

It will be interesting to see what others have found.

> btw, i see no difference between a (very fine grained) ASI-system with
> millions of subsystems and a AGI. Maybe, the AGI is only one small
> specialized module for coordination in a system having a critical
> mass. 

I guess general intellgence capabilities are ones that allows an 
intelligence to tackle a wide range of challenges for which it has no 
specialised capability.

My concern is not that statistically the whole mind system shows that 
more and more of the system is devoted to specialisation but rather 
that immense specialisation might lead to an atrophication of the 
mechanisms that allow for general intelligence (if the GI facilityies are 
not used much as the SI modules are added the system might just 
quietly reallocate the resources the GI capabilities were using).

Another concern is that the 'perspective' of the AGIs intelligence and it 
ethical structure might get seriously skewed so that, despite having 
growing mind power, the articial super-intelligence will be come less 
and less able to orientate an think/emote usefully in the areas outside 
its specialisation.

In otherwords the AGI moving to super-intelligent ASI might find that it 
has to use its specialised modeules to think about new issues with all 
the issues of bias and unsuitabllity that are inherent in that.

>From what others have said the human brain seems to exhibit this 
behaviour - both dynamically - specialists trying to think about general 
issues via their areas of professional specialisation (try getting generals 
to think about how to pro-actively make peace happen) - and also 
statically - it seems that humans (and other animals) are also forced to 
use specialist hardwired units of their brain and apply them to new 
uses.

Cheers, Philip

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