I guess. I’m not sure we can justify drawing that arbitrary line just because we want novelty in synthetic intelligence but little novelty in protein production. And I don’t really think 2 billion more years of evolution is going to produce they kind of intelligences most people around here are expecting to see in the next couple hundred years.
Part of the reason people like the prospects for better intelligence is that we can identify really obvious ways in which our’s could be improved. I wonder if there are systematic errors made in cellular mechanics.
And in particular, there’s good reason to believe that brains are still evolving at a decent pace, where it looks like cell mechanisms largely settled a long while back.
I don’t necessarily disagree but couldn’t you say the same thing about brains and intelligence?
/me shrugs
Brains have been around for far less time than cells.
I guess. I’m not sure we can justify drawing that arbitrary line just because we want novelty in synthetic intelligence but little novelty in protein production. And I don’t really think 2 billion more years of evolution is going to produce they kind of intelligences most people around here are expecting to see in the next couple hundred years.
Part of the reason people like the prospects for better intelligence is that we can identify really obvious ways in which our’s could be improved. I wonder if there are systematic errors made in cellular mechanics.
And in particular, there’s good reason to believe that brains are still evolving at a decent pace, where it looks like cell mechanisms largely settled a long while back.