[extropy-chat] Bluff and the Darwin award

[Russell Wallace]

On 5/16/06, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:

> Surely you jest.  Given a >human AI capable of self-improvement a hard
> take-off is at least possible.
>

"Hard takeoff" as the term has been previously used typically denotes a
process in which superintelligent AI is supposed to come about, not
something that is supposed to happen after such AI is achieved by other
means - what do you understand the term to mean?
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