[extropy-chat] Futures Past

[Russell Wallace]

On 10/10/05, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Unless we are so integrated with the technology that our brains are
> running a million times faster I fail to see how the advent of
> artificial human level general intelligent but running at computer
> speeds would fail to reach Singularity relative to the humans of the
> time.


Depends on what computer speeds are - silicon computers are much slower than
human brains, after all, in terms of raw computing power. (From that
perspective, an earlier Singularity would be more controllable than a late
one.)

- Russell
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