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superluminary t1_ir98c3g wrote

Reply to comment by manOnPavementWaving in The last few weeks have been truly jaw dropping. by Particular_Leader_16

We literally don't know how to build it. There's no way to make milestones because we don't know what the stones would be. At the moment it's still in the realm of time travel or FTL, might be possible, might not.

SD might be a step in the right direction or it might be a blind alley. It could be a Wright Brothers moment, or it could be the software equivalent of an ornithopter or an airscrew.

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Fluff-and-Needles t1_ira8b6w wrote

I mostly agree with you, though I do feel time travel and ftl travel are much less certain than ai. We don't have ready examples of the former, but we have examples of working intelligence all around us. We just don't fully understand them yet.

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superluminary t1_iraazu7 wrote

The general assumption is that intelligence is computational, and that consciousness will spontaneously emerge at a certain degree of complexity. These are assumptions based on our current dominant technology, the digital computer.

No real evidence that these assumptions are accurate though.

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