Re: The wirehead problem

On Oct 17, 8:23 am, Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alpha wrote:
THat is, robots are not even close now
and humans have such a "quantum" advantae over existing machines that
they will always be just catching up. [...]

Humans will not only keep up, they will advance leaps and bounds over
other program's attempts.

Humans /do/ have a head start.  But their brains are made of
unmaintainable sphagetti code - and it's very hard to see how
they could ever recover from that.

The analogy with "spaghetti code" fails (as there is no sense that
there is code in brain that is disorganized/ad hoc/kludgey), as does
the argument. So there is nothing to recover from. And as I said,
whatever limitations we do have are easily patched by directed
evolution: genetic engineering, bio-implants etc. in the future, much
more easily than it will be to start from scratch to generate general
intelligence, which is not even on the horizen, let alone capable of
exceeding humans's reach.

Humans are the quintessential creative agents in Universe (besides
Universe itself), and such is *directed*, and will remain so. The
machines we *create* are also directed by us and they will never
recover from that.
.

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