Could you qualify that statement? If I was given a full time job to find the best way to increase some bacterium’s fitness, I’m sure I could study the microbiology necessary and find at least some improvement well before evolution could. Yes, evolution created things that we don’t yet understand, but then again, she had a planet’s worth of processing power and 7 orders of magnitude more time to do it—and yet we can still see many obvious errors. Evolution has much more processing power than me, sure, but I wouldn’t say she is smarter than me. There’s nothing evolution created over all its history that humans weren’t able to overpower in an eyeblink of a time. Things like lack of foresight and inability to reuse knowledge or exchange it among species, mean that most of this processing power is squandered.
Well, we have a race with evolution in the field of antibiotics, don’t we? Evolution strikes back with antibiotic resistant bacteria. It is not that obvious that we will win. Probably we will, but that is not guaranteed.
It is a blind force, all right. It has no clear focus, all right. But still, it is an awesome power not to underestimate it.
Could you qualify that statement? If I was given a full time job to find the best way to increase some bacterium’s fitness, I’m sure I could study the microbiology necessary and find at least some improvement well before evolution could. Yes, evolution created things that we don’t yet understand, but then again, she had a planet’s worth of processing power and 7 orders of magnitude more time to do it—and yet we can still see many obvious errors. Evolution has much more processing power than me, sure, but I wouldn’t say she is smarter than me. There’s nothing evolution created over all its history that humans weren’t able to overpower in an eyeblink of a time. Things like lack of foresight and inability to reuse knowledge or exchange it among species, mean that most of this processing power is squandered.
Well, we have a race with evolution in the field of antibiotics, don’t we? Evolution strikes back with antibiotic resistant bacteria. It is not that obvious that we will win. Probably we will, but that is not guaranteed.
It is a blind force, all right. It has no clear focus, all right. But still, it is an awesome power not to underestimate it.
Can you make an AGI given only primordial soup?