[rsch20]

http://yudkowsky.net/tmol-faq/tmol-faq.html

hopefully it's as interesting to someone else as it originally was to me, i put the link up in another post but I think it deserves it's own.

[Zardoz]

I got to here, which motivated me to bookmark it and come back later and read the whole thing:

The really interesting part about the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence is the positive-feedback effect. Technology is the product of intelligence, so when intelligence is enhanced by technology, you've got transhumans who are more effective at creating better transhumans, who are more effective at creating even better transhumans. Cro-Magnons changed faster than Neanderthals, agricultural society changed faster than hunter-gatherer society, printing-press society changed faster than clay-tablet society, and now we have "Internet time". And yet all the difference between an Internet CEO and a hunter-gatherer is a matter of knowledge and culture, of "software". Our "hardware", our minds, emotions, our fundamental level of intelligence, are unchanged from fifty thousand years ago. Within a couple of decades, for the first time in human history, we will have the ability to modify the hardware.

And it won't stop there. The first-stage enhanced humans or artificial minds might only be around for months or even days before creating the next step. Then it happens again. Then again. Whatever the ultimate ends of existence, we might live to see them.

Back to work for now, but this looks interesting...

[rsch20]

so you read one paragraph, and make a summary judgement before even knowing what the full argument is? um ok.

I just posted it as a possibly interesting read, thanks for the feedback... maybe if i'm lucky I'll get some from someone who actually read it.

[edit] was responding to pstarr, not the post above =p

[rsch20]

I bow to your superior logic, obviously it is not necessary to understand something to debunk it.