Artificial Super Intelligence - are we ready for it?

[martin48]

There is a divine being and he uploads and installs into each human born a custom designed neural algorithm called a soul. Because it runs on flawed hardware (original sin) it’s prone to malfunction, and because it’s an abstract algorithm it’s immortal.

I do wish you would keep my flawed hardware out of the argument.

You would think that this divine-being had considered the flawed hardware and designed his/her algorithm to suit.

[martin48]

Some flawed robotic hardware with an evil designer

[trish]

Evolution is reproduction through a noisy channel. The flaws are essential

[martin48]

Without perturbations, there would be no variety and no progress.

[Laphroaig]

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

― Sir Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

[buttslinger]

Webster- INTELLIGENCE -the ability to learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations

Intelligence is not an entity unto itself, it's like a zero in math, it only has value when you add it to a number.

Even without a super computer, if you gave a really smart ethical guy complete dictator control over the United States, you could probably fix the military, IRS, budget, etc etc etc in one year. Just impose martial law and make the changes any idiot can see needs to be made.

The Big Bang was caused by a small flaw in the universe, made it spew out all over the place, but it's all a big mistake, the perfect universe still exists, about the size of a softball, spaceless and timeless, and formless in my head. You have to be beyond stupid to see it, you practically have to cut off blood flow to your brain.

It's possible the USA already has a super duper computer or alien technology, and we're waiting for a really good occasion to unveil it. Gotta keep it top secret, ya know. Lives are at stake.

[martin48]

Interesting theories. Not being an idiot, I can't understand it all

[broncofan]

about the size of a softball, spaceless and timeless, and formless in my head. You have to be beyond stupid to see it, you practically have to cut off blood flow to your brain.

Anything you have to see without much blood in your brain is more likely a hallucination than the perception of real phenomena. It's just as likely to be a manifestation of aberrant neural activity than a valid percept. If we develop computers capable of generating ideas, let's hope the ideas relate to things that actually exist or could exist.

I was prescribed a toxic dose of a medication once and when I woke up the next morning I saw a translucent spider crawling towards me through the air. I was fully aware it was not an actual spider, but it had all of the qualities of a spider in appearance, save for its translucence. This softball sounds about as real as that spider (even if you meant it as a metaphor I don't know what you mean).

[broncofan]

Intelligence is not an entity unto itself, it's like a zero in math, it only has value when you add it to a number. .

And not to be pedantic, but zero does not have value when you add it to a number. Edit: I'm guessing you mean as a placeholder, in which case, I guess it does.

[buttslinger]

If you add zero to six, the zero becomes a six,
If zero was sleep, and you added it to Jimmy, Jimmy might appear dumb as a post, completely worthless, yet Jimmy is still Jimmy.

Some people talk about trading all their treasures for a perfectly round pearl of great value. Or go off looking for a riddle, a dewdrop on the sea. A computer might do math thousands of times faster than me, or lots of other stuff better than me, a smart guy might be smarter than me about pretty much everything. But I value ME over them, because all the laws of physics and nature say I gotta be me. Reality trumps Intelligence.

I mean, really, most guys here can't get past a dude with tits and a pretty face, right? Is it real or a hallucination?