Ok there was an unstated assumption, but that assumption was that the AGI has physical effectors. Those effectors could be nearly anything, since with enough planning and time nearly any physical effector could be used to bootstrap your way to any other capability.
So many posts back I was asserting that even un augmented human beings have the capability to eat our collective future light cone. It’s a monumental project, yes, with probably hundreds of years before the first starships leave. But once they do our future descendents would be expanding into the cosmos at a fairly large fraction of the speed of light. I’ll point you to the various studies done by the British Interplanetary Society and others on interstellar colonization if you don’t want to take my word for it.
So if regular old homo sapiens can do it, but an AGI with physical effectors can’t, then I seriously question how general that intelligence is.
And remember that getting to this level of industrial capacity on earth followed from millions of years of biological evolution and thousands of years of cultural evolution in Earth’s biosphere. Why would one ship full of humans be able to replicate that success somewhere else?
Similarly, an AGI that can replicate itself with an industrial base at its disposal might not be able to when isolated from those resource (it’s still an AGI).
Ok there was an unstated assumption, but that assumption was that the AGI has physical effectors. Those effectors could be nearly anything, since with enough planning and time nearly any physical effector could be used to bootstrap your way to any other capability.
So many posts back I was asserting that even un augmented human beings have the capability to eat our collective future light cone. It’s a monumental project, yes, with probably hundreds of years before the first starships leave. But once they do our future descendents would be expanding into the cosmos at a fairly large fraction of the speed of light. I’ll point you to the various studies done by the British Interplanetary Society and others on interstellar colonization if you don’t want to take my word for it.
So if regular old homo sapiens can do it, but an AGI with physical effectors can’t, then I seriously question how general that intelligence is.
Yes; please provide those links.
And remember that getting to this level of industrial capacity on earth followed from millions of years of biological evolution and thousands of years of cultural evolution in Earth’s biosphere. Why would one ship full of humans be able to replicate that success somewhere else?
Similarly, an AGI that can replicate itself with an industrial base at its disposal might not be able to when isolated from those resource (it’s still an AGI).