Tim Freeman writes:> >Let's take Novamente as an example. ... It cannot improve itself> >until the following things happen:> >> >1) It acquires the knowledge and skills to become a competent> > programmer, a task that takes a human many years of directed> > training and practical experience.> > > >2) It is given access to its own implementation and permission to alter it.> > > >3) It understands its own implementation well enough to make a helpful change.> >...> > I agree that resource #1, competent programming, is essential for any> interesting takeoff scenario. I don't think the other two matter,> though. Ok, this alternative scenario -- where Novamente secretly reinvents the theoretical foundations needed for AGI development, designs its successor from those first principles, and somehow hijacks an equivalent or superior supercomputer to receive the de novo design and surreptitiously trains it to superhuman capacity -- should also be protected against. It's a fairly ridiculous scenario, but for completeness should be mentioned.
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