The dangerous AI singularity is thought to consist in general AIs writing the next generation of AIs and so on. As known from software development, each generation will require faster hardware and more memory than the last, until a simple helloworld consumes entire solar systems
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Replying to @Plinz
the idea of infinite bootstrap iteration clearly violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Communication time is limited by light speed & feature resolution is limited by molecular structure constraints. How do we know the human nervous system (operating on 40 watts) isn't optimal?
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Replying to @Guygies
A lot of the energy consumption of the human nervous system goes into sustaining its cells. Also, it takes 4ha land to feed a person, solar cells could produce a megawatt on that area.
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Replying to @Plinz
and how many acres of strip-mining for the copper, aluminum, silicon, etc. to be processed? How many gigawatts of energy to power the flash-lamps, furnaces and smelters?
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All of them! It will come down to people being unable to think without computers, but computers comfortably thinking without people.
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