Books, agriculture and language were all invented/discovered when
Earth's population was nowhere near the 10 billion mark.
Also I think that 95% or more of society currently little to nothing to
humanity intellectually and clearly an AGI system will not rely on the
knowledge base of most Mc Donalds employees as your knowledge will
almost resemble a superset of theirs. (I feel ashamed for our society
that still brings forth such jobs and I have nothing against Mc Donalds
employees.) This trend will probably continue and the more advanced a
civilization gets the higher the entry barriers will be in order to
contribute meaningful things I suppose.
It probably also depends on how far we are away from obtaining all the
insight that our universe will allow us to obtain and on the AGI
implementation on whether we will profit from having more than a single
or just a few instances but I really don't see how a self improving
intelligence would benefit from massively scaling horizontally instead
of moderately scaling vertically ... i.e. brain size vs. amount of
brains? A billion apes will not write Shakespeare within most finite
universes.
On 03/04/2013 03:06 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote:
Did it take 10 billion Alan Turings, Charles
Babbages or Blaise Pascals in order to invent/improve computation and
programming languages?
Yes, if you count all of the people before them that invented books,
agriculture, language, etc.
I made the most money by trading futures or writing Facebook apps. All
the more intelligent stuff that interests me does not result in money
... I think that revenue is a good measure of intelligence in a system
that rewards a selfish and societal destructive behaviour.
Our current form of intelligence does not stack ...
100 people with an IQ of 100 will under most circumstances not
intellectually outperform a single person with an IQ of 150?
Yes they will, if you measure intelligence by widely accepted measures
of expected utility, such as dollars per hour.
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