rather than simply being the first such intelligence that happened to evolve.
Other species might have evolved sufficiently to have a technological civilization and merely lack appropriate circumstances/natural “infrastructure”. I’m thinking of dolphins in particular. They can’t use fire because they live in water, etc.
the advantages of digital intelligence that will likely produce an intelligence explosion
Better to frame it as factors a few of which would be sufficient if you are correct about them. A critic might think the argument depended on each factor.
Copying also allows potentially rapid shifts in which digital intelligences, with which skills, fill the population.
“Copying also allows potentially rapid shifts in the composition of the digital intelligence population, and consequently its aggregate skills.”
such as engineering our way to the moon.
Add a mental achievement. Differential equations?
Perhaps digitally recording states, consciously revising a larger portion of one’s thought patterns, or sharing high-bandwidth states with other agents would increase capacity?
“Cognitive capacity” doesn’t sound good. The first two gains are indirect gains of fungible cognitive resources by compressing things. The last isn’t within just one mind. This is if I understand your meaning correctly, but I’m not confident of that.
Now when
Now whenever
Chalmers (this volume) discusses this process in some detail
This implies he is telling a story with conjunctions rather than describing how different possible paths lead to approximately the same place.
In any case, at least once self-improvement kicks in,
This is awkward because “In any case,” is often followed by “at least,” i.e. a phrase also meaning “at any rate.”
“Once self-improvement kicks in, if not sooner, AI development need not proceed on the timescale we are used to in human technological innovation.”
Other species might have evolved sufficiently to have a technological civilization and merely lack appropriate circumstances/natural “infrastructure”. I’m thinking of dolphins in particular. They can’t use fire because they live in water, etc.
Better to frame it as factors a few of which would be sufficient if you are correct about them. A critic might think the argument depended on each factor.
“Copying also allows potentially rapid shifts in the composition of the digital intelligence population, and consequently its aggregate skills.”
Add a mental achievement. Differential equations?
“Cognitive capacity” doesn’t sound good. The first two gains are indirect gains of fungible cognitive resources by compressing things. The last isn’t within just one mind. This is if I understand your meaning correctly, but I’m not confident of that.
Now whenever
This implies he is telling a story with conjunctions rather than describing how different possible paths lead to approximately the same place.
This is awkward because “In any case,” is often followed by “at least,” i.e. a phrase also meaning “at any rate.”
“Once self-improvement kicks in, if not sooner, AI development need not proceed on the timescale we are used to in human technological innovation.”