Fully decoding the human genome is almost impossible. Not only is there the
problem of protein folding, which I think even supercomputers can't fully
solve, but the purpose for the structure of each protein depends on
interaction with the incredibly complex molecular structures inside cells.
Also, the genetic code for a human being is basically made of the same
elements that the genetic code for the lowliest single-celled creature is
made of, and yet it somehow describes the initial structure of a system of
neural cells that then developes into a human brain through a process of
embriological growth (which includes biological interaction from the
mother -- why you can't just grow a human being from an embryo in a petri
dish), and then a fairly long process of childhood development.
This is the way evolution created mind somewhat randomly over three billion
(and a half?) years. The human mind is the pinnacle of this evolution.
With this mind along with collective intelligence, it shouldn't take another
three billion years to engineer intelligence. Evolution is slow -- human
beings can engineer.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
Eric Baum wrote:
(Why should producing a human-level AI be cheaper than decoding the
genome?)
Because the genome is encrypted even worse than natural language.
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