[ExI] Limiting factors of intelligence explosion speeds

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 05:07:51PM -0700, Keith Henson wrote:

> The paranoid among us might want to consider the possibility that
> runaway machine intelligence has already happened.  (Ghod knows what

It would be very easy to spot by sniffing traffic. 

In principle there's a close analogy between a synapse
and a router, between packet and spike. Of course, in
a bootstrap you would pack an entire spike train or
equivalent payload in a packet, and nodes can be extremely
fat.

> goes on in unused cloud computing capacity.)  The question is how we

You can rent GPGPU node instances at Amazon now.

> might recognize it?  Would things start happen?  What?  Anything?
> Would machine intelligence stay where it was unnoticed?

The bootstrap is extremely messy, and absolutely impossible
to miss. And why would you want to stay unnoticed? It's not
like anyone can do anything about it. The world 30+ years
from now is a lot different from today than 1980 was.

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