[ExI] Hard Takeoff

[Stefano Vaj]

On 20 November 2010 05:42, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
> Intelligence is a type and source of power.  That is the point of AGI.  There is no equivalence of power between an AGI and a computer that merely has the same amount of raw computational ability.

Do you imply that anything which is more "intelligent" is more
"powerful" than anything which is less?

As a matter of definition, or in any other sense? And, if the former
were the case, in which sense a Turing-passing AGI would be
necessarily more "intelligent" than other computing systems?

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Stefano Vaj