[ExI] Kurzweil critique

[Vladimir Nesov]

I usually limit extraordinary claims to saying that:
1) brain is not magic
2) it should be possible to create a functionally equivalent gizmo in
silicon, for example by modeling it on required level of detail,
although it won't be easy, and nobody claims that it is or that there
is a great progress in this direction
2a) probably there's a simpler architecture that results in
equivalently powerful functional result (like device being able to
generate scientific papers, like human scientists do), but which is
easier to engineer
3) once it's achieved, it will work faster, because brain is an
intrinsically slower substrate; as a result, produced in sufficient
quantity, it will be able to deliver 1000 years of technical progress
in a year, which is HUGE.

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Vladimir Nesov                            mailto:robotact at gmail.com