Re: FAI prioritization

From: Stathis Papaioannou (stathisp@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 05 2008 - 19:37:11 MDT


On 05/04/2008, Stuart Armstrong <dragondreaming@googlemail.com> wrote:

> I'm virtually one of those - I think it is very unlikely to have AGI
> in the next 50 years (and always have) because I feel we don't have a
> theory of consciousness (most versions I know are either mathematical
> models that do not capture our current intuitive ideas, or boil down
> to "we'll know it when we see it").

Evolution has no use for consciousness, only for intelligence. This
implies that consciousness is just a side-effect of human level
intelligence.

-- 
Stathis Papaioannou


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