On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:09:05PM -0400, Richard Loosemore wrote: > > RSI is only what happens after you get an AGI up to the human level: it > could then be used [sic] to build a more intelligent version of itself, > and so on up to some unknown plateau. That plateau is often referred to > as "superintelligence".
Perhaps I was insufficiently clear in an earlier email. In that email, I sketched what RSI looked like for humans. I suggested that, with appropriate neurosurgery, I could increase the capacity of my short-term (working) memory, and I sketched what that might be like, in its effects on my thought patterns. I proposed that this kind of neuro-surgery was "RSI for humans". Now, increasing the capacity of short-term memory for humans is impossible, without literally growing the size of the brain, and so that seems like a natural place to "stand pat": we're sort-of stuck here. However, there is no such limitation for AGI. If humans can be made vastly smarter simply by increasing the size of short-term memory, then it seems that AGI can be made vastly smarter simply by increasing its short-term memory. And this can be done at compile-time, or even run-time, by tweaking a few parameters. It does not require some kind of magic re-engineering of its own algorithms. It just requires installing more RAM, and maybe a faster CPU. In other words, the lack of RSI is not a strong barrier to AGI, in the way that it is for humans. --linas ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=49477431-1e687b
