On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Competence and intelligence are different things >
If something made of protoplasm does it then it's intelligent, but if something made of silicon and does the exact same thing then it's only competent; I said it before I'll say it again, only somebody terrified of machine intelligence would make that argument. > > Intelligence is the ground state of being that allows any living thing > access to an experience of time and place. > Contemplating your navel in other words. > > Competence is getting stuff done. > So from my point of view the only important thing is if computers are competent or not, and it doesn't matter if they're intelligent or conscious because if one of the things they decide to get done is take over the world then I'm dead meat. I don't know how thinks look from your point of view because I have no way of knowing if you or any of my fellow human beings is competent or intelligent, much less know if they are conscious. John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
