On 5/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Samantha Atkins</b> <<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style=""><div>Surely you jest. Given a >human AI capable of self-improvement a hard take-off is at least possible.
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"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?<br>