A question, would you consider computers as part of the dominant optimisation processes on earth already?
It is just that you often compare neurons to silicon as one of the things that will be very different for AI. But as we already use silicon as part of our optimisation processes (modelling protein folding, weather systems, data mining). The jump to pure silicon optimisation processes might not be as huge as you suggest with the comparison of firing rates of neurons and processor speed.
I suppose I am having trouble localising an optimisation process and rating its “power”. Consider two identical computer systems with software that if on the surface would enable it to be a RPOP, both of them locked underground on the moon one has sufficient energy (chemical and heat gradients) to bootstrap to fusion or otherwise get itself out of the moon, the other one doesn’t. They obviously will have a different ability to affect the future. Should I say that the energy reserves are part of the optimisation process rather than separating them away, so I can still say they are equally powerful? How much of the universe do you need to consider part of the process so that powerfulness(process) gives a unique answer?
One last question, if you create friendly AI, should I consider you as powerful an optimisation process as it?
A question, would you consider computers as part of the dominant optimisation processes on earth already?
It is just that you often compare neurons to silicon as one of the things that will be very different for AI. But as we already use silicon as part of our optimisation processes (modelling protein folding, weather systems, data mining). The jump to pure silicon optimisation processes might not be as huge as you suggest with the comparison of firing rates of neurons and processor speed.
I suppose I am having trouble localising an optimisation process and rating its “power”. Consider two identical computer systems with software that if on the surface would enable it to be a RPOP, both of them locked underground on the moon one has sufficient energy (chemical and heat gradients) to bootstrap to fusion or otherwise get itself out of the moon, the other one doesn’t. They obviously will have a different ability to affect the future. Should I say that the energy reserves are part of the optimisation process rather than separating them away, so I can still say they are equally powerful? How much of the universe do you need to consider part of the process so that powerfulness(process) gives a unique answer?
One last question, if you create friendly AI, should I consider you as powerful an optimisation process as it?