From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sat Jan 03 2004 - 08:05:38 MST
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:26:17AM -0800, Tommy McCabe wrote:
> 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.
How do you know this? The only known instance of intelligence we know appears
to use evolutionary selection as its driving force. I don't know what
"recursive self-improvement" or "intelligent design-and-test" is, and either,
I suspect, do you.
As to "blind mutation", evolution is anything but blind -- or you wouldn't be
there to write this.
With this, I'm out of this thread, and out of this list.
-- Eugen* Leitl leitl
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