[extropy-chat] Superintelligence

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/16/06, Mikhail John <edinsblood at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> We've got real big bombs now. Unless the superintelligence discovers
> exotic
> new physics applications, say, a force field, those bombs are going to
> hurt.
> I'm assuming that it would be difficult to maintain a distributed
> intellect
> while boiling oceans and ripping continents apart, and once centralized
> the
> AI will be (relatively) open to attack. Even when distributed you could
> severely inconvenience it by severing internet hubs or somesuch, possibly
> opening it up for viral attack.
>
> Because while it would difficult to boost a continent to orbit, a Von
> Neumann machine would be effortless. Once in space, expansion becomes
> easier.
> .


http://www.transhumanism.org/index.php/th/print/293/

Dirk
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