[ExI] AI Motivation revisited

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 06:12:05AM -0700, Ben Zaiboc wrote:
> john clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net> observed:
> 
> >> ?On Wed, 6/29/11, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> "If we free Kasparov's opponent from tournament rules
> >> regarding time,
> >> and we execute this very program on *anything*, including a
> >> Chinese
> >> Room or a Turing machine or a Babbage engine or 30.000
> >> slaves playing
> >> logic circuits in a plain, the end result would not
> >> change."
> 
> > Obviously. So what?
> 
> 
> Sadly, John, this is far from obvious to a disturbingly large number of people.  Why this should be, I don't know, but imo it ranks among the most significant and dangerous problems that the human race faces.

In practice you'll get a different result: the process
will never finish but for trivial problem sizes.

This is also far from obvious to a disturbingly large number of people.

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