17 Feb
2017
17 Feb
'17
4:10 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 09:01:47AM -0700, Mirimir wrote:
"Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence."
Why "hope"? It seems pretty obvious that we're the boot loader for something, given evolutionary history. So why not digital?
Why digital or organic? Why not BUZZWORD-FOR-SOMETHING-NOT-INVENTED-YET? Ancient people didn't know "digital" existed AFAIK. What does science fiction say about non-digital (in today's sense) AI? Ted Chiang's Understand (link to text available on wikipedia) speculates about superintelligence based on overclocking humans.