it’s conjecture, yes, but not pure conjecture. Natural selection doesn’t optimize, it satisfices, and the slow process of accreting new features and repurposing existing systems for alternative uses ensures that there’s lots of redundancy, with lots of room for simplification and improvement. When has the artificial solution ever been as complex as the naturally evolved alternative it replaced, and why should the human brain be any different?
Intelligence tests are timed for a reason, and that’s because speed is one aspect of intelligence. If the program is smart enough (which it is by hypothesis) that it will eventually comes across the right theory, consider the right hypothesis, develop the appropriate mathematics, etc., at some point (just as we might argue the smartest human beings are), then more processing power results in that happening much faster, since the many dead ends can be reached faster, and the alternatives explored more quickly.
Making a copy of itself requires a handful of machine instructions, and sending that copy to a new processing node with instructions on what hypotheses to investigate is a few more instructions. I feel like I’m being trolled here, with the suggestion that copying a big number in computer memory from one location to another can’t be done any more easily than creating a human baby (and don’t forget educating it for 20 years).
it’s conjecture, yes, but not pure conjecture. Natural selection doesn’t optimize, it satisfices, and the slow process of accreting new features and repurposing existing systems for alternative uses ensures that there’s lots of redundancy, with lots of room for simplification and improvement. When has the artificial solution ever been as complex as the naturally evolved alternative it replaced, and why should the human brain be any different?
Intelligence tests are timed for a reason, and that’s because speed is one aspect of intelligence. If the program is smart enough (which it is by hypothesis) that it will eventually comes across the right theory, consider the right hypothesis, develop the appropriate mathematics, etc., at some point (just as we might argue the smartest human beings are), then more processing power results in that happening much faster, since the many dead ends can be reached faster, and the alternatives explored more quickly.
Making a copy of itself requires a handful of machine instructions, and sending that copy to a new processing node with instructions on what hypotheses to investigate is a few more instructions. I feel like I’m being trolled here, with the suggestion that copying a big number in computer memory from one location to another can’t be done any more easily than creating a human baby (and don’t forget educating it for 20 years).