We're nowhere near smart enough to set hard limits on how smart something could get. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @shirtlords
how smart something gets is a change of attribute, not substance, you dont complete something by changing an attribute from 0.4 to 0.8
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Replying to @heuristics @shirtlords
Scholastic categories aren't technically helpful. Trial-and-error groping is the only thing we do at all well.
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Replying to @Outsideness @shirtlords
well, it is your sentence, I am the one not understanding what you mean, how would you understand/define incompleteness?
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Replying to @heuristics @shirtlords
As an auto-productive loop (or autonomized machine). I J Good has said everything philosophically essential on the topic.
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Replying to @Outsideness @shirtlords
having children and giving them an education you mean?
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Replying to @heuristics @shirtlords
That doesn't suffice for intelligence explosion, unless they're being educated in how to hack their own brains.
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Replying to @Outsideness @shirtlords
what does intelligence explosion have to do with completeness?
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Replying to @heuristics @shirtlords
It's the cybernetically-positive version of completeness (self-amplification feedback). Complete negative loops are everywhere in ecology.
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Replying to @Outsideness @shirtlords
you are saying that the software, given certain self-optimization will give itself potential for conversation/deal cutting?
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Yes. It's hard for me even to imagine an alternative. There are no hard boundaries of principle involved.
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Replying to @Outsideness @shirtlords
the surprising assumption for me, as a software engineer, is that the software will do anything at all, much less something so interesting
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