<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anders Sandberg</b> <<a href="mailto:asa@nada.kth.se">asa@nada.kth.se</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If past history is a guide, the number of domains of human activity is<br>increasing tremendously. Many domains do not appear to be terribly<br>complex, but there are so many of them. We cannot google them all to do<br>them. With even greater brains (and posthuman bodies and extraterrestrial
<br>environments) that number of domains would expand enormously. Even if<br>general intelligence can conquer them all given time and motivation, I<br>would suspect that there will never be enough time (and economics).<br>
Compared to the range of domains most of us are acting in today,<br>posthumans might actually appear terribly specialised. But thanks to the<br>distributed nature of knowledge, if you ever asked the IQ 12,000 being<br>about usulism, it would probably efficiently get the answer from its
<br>relative so quickly that we would think it knew it all along.</blockquote><div><br>You could consider human civilization as a whole as a black box which considers problems and comes up with solutions. Would it make sense to talk about a collective IQ for this black box? If so, what might this IQ be?
<br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br></div><br></div><br>