Perhaps you've been through this - but I'd like to know people's ideas about
what exact physical form a Singulitarian or near-Singul. AGI will take. And
I'd like to know people's automatic associations even if they don't have
thought-through ideas - just what does a superAGI conjure up in your mind,
regardless of whether you're sure about it or not, or it's sensible?
The obvious alternatives, it seems to me, (but please comment), are either
pace the movie 2001, a desk-bound supercomputer like Hal, with perhaps
extended sensors all over the place, even around the world - although that
supercomputer, I guess, could presumably occupy an ever smaller space as
miniaturisation improves.
Or some robot - or society of robots - that moves around the world.
Are there any other major categories of alternatives?
The first type of alternative obviously raises the questionof whether
disembodied intellligence is possible. Discussions here seem to me to assume
that it is, but I may be misreading.
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