Re: Is Software Generality Overrated?

Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Thu, 15 May 1997 09:02:00 -0700 (PDT)

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Damien Broderick writes:
>a human takes between 7 and 35 years to absorb the tacit knowledge
>needed for true functioning intelligence. That's *every single
>human*. Once the knowledge base is compiled, compressed and debugged,
>AIs can (presumably) be die-stamped. ... the advantages of xeroxing
>over long drawn-out experience seem to me to represent a truly
>gigantic jump forward in low cost utility.

With uploads, this advantage will apply to us as well. So the
question is: will common sense be compiled before uploads appear?

Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/

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