<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The current method of making children is more akin to turning the key on a car to make it go than building a car, don't you think? I mean, in my analogy, starting a car is not like being a car maker or even a mechanic. One doesn't need to know much about how to make one -- much less how to make a better one. T</SPAN><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">he latter is a telling point: parents who produce smarter children don't necessarily know how it's done and the same method -- having sex -- can also produce children of the same or less smarts, no?</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Dan<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> David Lubkin <lubkin@unreasonable.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, September 19, 2011 12:57 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] Automated black-box-based system design of unsupervised hyperintelligent learning systems<BR></FONT><BR>Mike Dougherty wrote:<BR><BR>>You can't build something smarter than yourself.<BR><BR>Parents often have children who are smarter than they are.<BR><BR>--
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