<div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/27 Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:14:42PM +0100, Stefano Vaj wrote:<br>
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> What changes (dramatically) are the performances in the execution of a given<br>
> program.<br>
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</div>This is a very large understatement. And also my primary source for<br>
contempt for philosophical armchair gedanken experiments. Which<br>
are mostly about taking human intuition to places it wasn't meant to go.<br></blockquote></div><br>Yet, the rather counterintuitive implications of the recognition that there is in principle nothing else beyond the leap to "universal computation", and that the latter is pretty common owing to the very low complexity threshold required to achieve it, are huge.<br>
<br>In particular, I find A New Kind of Science pretty persuasive in this respect, and I daresay it influenced a lot my view of AGI.<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>