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• Commented on The Anthropic Stupidity Hypothesis
  I'll decide for you then - goodbye, permanently...
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  Sparta...
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  No we just dress them up in new words and cheer them on. As for my "one liner trolls" I assumed that people could make their own deductions from my simple statement, but it seems I have to spell it...
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  "AFAIK most abortions after genetic testing are for conditions that will not allow the child to live or procreate anyway. " Down's Syndrome? Sickle Cell Anemia? Hemophilia?...
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  This is what annoys me about people who rant on about the evils of "eugenics". They tend to be exactly the same people who will wholeheartedly support the biggest eugenics program in Human history. They are either fools or hypocrites....
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  "I have the nagging suspicion that Dirk has slipped into quasi-troll mode again." So what do you call abortions that are carried out after genetic testing because of genetic defects in the embryo? Is that somehow not miraculously "eugenics" because...
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  Doesn't matter what you call it if it has the same effect. Although I imagine it was done explicitly to improve society....
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  "...at what age have criminals normally been executed in many countries around the world? And at what age do they often become fertile?" No idea, but we certainly used to hang children for petty theft....
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  Societies have and do practice eugenics. Until recently criminals (mostly young) got executed before they could breed, unless they were smart. Additionally large numbers of defective embryos are aborted annually if the tests show something wrong....
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boskop_Man "Boskop Man is a type of hominid, based on a skull discovered in 1913 in South Africa, whose existence and interpretation is controversial. Originally, the skull was claimed to be 30 percent larger than that of modern humans... Boskop...
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  "Then there's intelligence. Ashkenazi Jews..." One has to be careful about measuring the IQ of self selected groups. I imagine if Transhumanism is defined as a religion (as Greg seems to believe) then our "religion" has an IQ higher than...
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  "The idea of speeding up input is cute, but it requires even more lavish software and hardware, and ignores the interactive nature of learning." Watson already has that sorted, it appears. Also, I too can quite easily learn from the...
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  Has anyone seriously tried to breed any animal for intelligence? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4pzEgncFY...
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  "So then, you'd be okay with creating a human-derived slave race which would just love to obey and work for their creators and masters? " We had better do something like that or we will become extinct in the blink...
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  Quantum computing is not on the horizon for the brain emulation project, but exascale computing is an acknowledged target for several organizations and nations by 2018. The real question that will be determined is exactly how much of a "real"...
• Commented on The Anthropic Stupidity Hypothesis
  What Robin Hanson does is outline a future we need to make a special effort to avoid, and to do so right now. It's not about scitech or even economics but politics. Unless we act it's not going to turn...
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  I think someone will hit the exascale point around 2017. Possibly the Chinese. I also suspect that the emulation project has so much potential we will see similar projects in the USA, China and Japan. So, exascale in 2017 and...
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  The difference between a good and bad singularity...
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  I am rather assuming that the emulation will run within a VR environment, possibly interacting with Human avatars at some point. Also, an exascale computer should be able to run this in close to realtime....
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  "Now you're advocating torture and/or murder as conditioning approaches. Nice try, Dirk." No, I am stating how some AIs will be created. How many people or governments will balk at a bit of torture and murder when there's trillions at...
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  We don't actually need something to be a full conscious brain. Just something that can do most people's jobs eg drive a truck safely, staff call centres and technical help lines, maybe do some old fashioned computer programming and intelligent...
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  You should bear in mind that all the "real" ethics debates will take place only after Human level AI has been achieved and is on an exponentially increasing track. Meanwhile anyone who does not implement as much as possible as...
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  The economics of uploading (of which this is a subset) have been examined in detail by Robin Hanson. Given that he posited a Human upload rather than this scenario, his extrapolations look even worse for old HomSaps. I was at...
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  You are the one that is optimistic. Run it 100x or 1000x realtime and it's useful within months. Not obedient? Punish it, reward it, delete it and try again. Get what you want and everyone who has a job sitting...
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  "Which brings us to another favourite subject ... "hard" AI - which, in my opinion, won't happen until we have a "computer" with as many cross connections as the human brain, or a reasonable fecsimile thereof." That is about 10...
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  http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/more-proof-that-intelligence-is-85134.aspx "In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience Feb. 18, UCLA neurology professor Paul Thompson and colleagues used a new type of brain-imaging scanner to show that intelligence is strongly influenced by the quality of the brain's axons,...
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  Mathematics and genetics? "tDCS changes the voltage across neurons and can make them more or less likely to fire. Cohen Kadosh's team zapped volunteers while they were shown made-up symbols representing the numbers 1 to 9. Although the volunteers had...
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  Not to mention myself, a martial arts teacher of 30 years with an IQ of 155....
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  "Why is the human species only as intelligent as it is, and not more so?" Simple and obvious I would have thought. We get just enough intelligence to remove the selective pressure for intelligence....
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  "Then why are there no people alive with really low “IQ” measurement, but a very few with “not measureable – off the scale" at the top, then?" There are such people, heavily institutionalized. Not even capable of knowing what an...