> To active participants in the process, it would never seem that intelligence > ran away, however to outsiders who shun technology, or refuse to augment > themselves, I think it would appear to run away. Consider at some point, > the technology becomes available to upload one's mind into a computer, half > the population accepts this and does so, while the other half reject it. On > this new substrate, human minds could run at one million times the rate of > biological brains, and in one year's time, the uploaded humans would have > experienced a million years worth of experience, invention, progress, etc. > It would be hard to imagine what the uploaded humans would even have in > common or be able to talk about after even a single day's time (2,700 years > to those who uploaded). In this sense, intelligence has run away, from the > perspective of the biological humans.
Hi! I agree with everything you say. I hadn't until now understood what is meant by TS. I thought that Kurzweil referred to IE as "runaway", but now I see that what is meant is simply a large acceleration in the pace at which events happen. That I can well believe to be possible. And I guess that before I can talk about an exponential increase in intelligence, I'd really need to define how it's measured. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
