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IT Director

By Peter Cochrane

Published: Thursday 16 December 2004


Name

Anonymous


Location

UK


Occupation

IT consultant


Comment

You wrote:

'Faster and more powerful machines begat even faster and more powerful machines that not only decoded the human genome but also cracked the mystery of protein patterns.'
and
'The non-linear and chaotic system we constructed by 2010 was beyond our understanding and we had to get the machines to stabilise almost everything.'

With the machines getting faster and faster, why would they stop at human-level intelligence? You imply that they will be beyond our understanding, but the implications of this are truly tremendous.

I doubt that a super-intelligence would have the same interests and objectives as the human race.



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