The axiomatic requirements of religion introduce a fatal defect into human epistemology that cuts off areas of model space and prevents universal intelligence. When Roger Bacon discovered the bug and released a fix into the world, he irrevocably started the Singularity.
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Replying to @Plinz
And the human cognitive architecture comes loaded with plenty of fatal defects on its own.
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No! My point is that once we fix the basic epistemology, we can identify and correct for all other defects. Once we know the criteria for evaluating truth, and as long as we can externalize ideas in a turing complete language, only our physical destruction can stop us.
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You know, Joscha, sometimes I admire you for the positivity and optimism you manage to uphold in spite of all your insights.
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I don't think that it is optimistic, it is just true. Once we fix the basic axioms of rationality, the only conceivable reason that we might not find the solution to a solvable problem is lack of compute (i.e. time and memory) to deal with the search space.
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