Re: Strong vs Weak SIs and the Incomprehensiblity Issue

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:11:56 -0700

>Doug Bailey:

>We won't know the difference until we can begin to grasp the concepts the SI
>is thinking about, unless of course we could somehow determine the existence
>of knowledge that is forever beyond our grasp (highly improbable).
>
Presuming that our brains won't become augmented (unlikely) almost any really complicated mathematical operation or proof is a counterexample here. The lengthy and cumbersome kinds of strings used when creating true but unprovable statements per Godel's Theorem is one example. Another more humble example is truly visualizing the operations of Windows 95 as I write this message. Then there's really modeling the economy....

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