From: Tennessee Leeuwenburg (tennessee@tennessee.id.au)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 17:39:39 MDT
John K Clark wrote:
> "Tennessee Leeuwenburg" <tennessee@tennessee.id.au>
>
>> Assumption of scaling.
>
> Yes, and I can't think of anything that scales more beautifully than
> the speed of signals in a brain and the subjective passage of time.
> Trying to control or predict exactly what a mind that can put in 3
> million times as much thought as you can will do next is a lousing
> proposition, and unpredictability is what we mean by a singularity.
The fact that you don't know if intelligence scales with speed of
signals doesn't mean that it will bring about the singularity.
-T
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