I am sure that we are not going to be the last universally intelligent species on earth, but what shocks me is that we are apparently the first.
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Replying to @Plinz
"on earth".an understatement.We are the first intelligent species in our known universe. And we haven't even gotten far with that.
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Replying to @Xrayhighs
The first one known to us. We don't know the probability of life, but I suspect that it is low, so we might well be the first life. OTOH, it might be conceivable that general intelligent machinery is more likely to spontaneously form than evolvable self-replicators.
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Replying to @Plinz @Xrayhighs
Do you know of a good argument for intelligent machinery being as likely to occur as evolving self-replicators? It seems that replication is pretty simple and potentiates evolution, which is an obvious route to intelligence. How do you get intelligence alone?
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The intuition is that a self-stabilizing Turing machine with negentropy extractor is a small subset of the machinery of a cell, and adding universal recursive function approximation requires less complexity than full self-replication.
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