Re: An essay I just wrote on the Singularity.

From: Tommy McCabe (rocketjet314@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jan 03 2004 - 06:26:17 MST


--- "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
> Tommy McCabe <rocketjet314@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Hopefully, any superintelligence, Friendly or not,
> > would have sense enough to get rid Darwinian
> evolution
> > altogether.
>
> That's like trying to get rid of gravitation. So
> long as there are
> limited resources and multiple competing actors
> capable of passing on
> characteristics, you have selection pressure...

Possibly true, but an AI would be smart enough to use
recursive self-improvement, or intelligent
design-and-test, in place of blind mutation, for the
improvement component.

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