Also—I don’t really get “the general intelligence is composite anyway” argument. Ok—I also believe that it is. But what would prevent an ASI from being developped as a well-coordinated set of many narrow optimizers?
Also—why the fixation on 12 SD? It’s not that high really. It sounds high to a human evaluating another human. Bostrom made a good point on this—the need to step out of the antropomorphic scale. This thing could very well reach 120 SD (the fact that we wouldn’t even know how to measure and recognize 120 SD is just an indication of our own limitations, nothing more), and make every human look like a clam.
Thinking about it—I think a lot of what we call general intelligence might be that part of the function which after it analyses the nature of the problem strategizes and selects the narrom optimizer, or set of narrow optimizers that must be used to solve it, in what order, with what type of logical connections between the outputs of the one and the input of the other etc. Since the narrow optimizers are run sequentially rather than simultaneously in this type of process, the computing capacity required is not overly large.
Also—I don’t really get “the general intelligence is composite anyway” argument. Ok—I also believe that it is. But what would prevent an ASI from being developped as a well-coordinated set of many narrow optimizers?
Also—why the fixation on 12 SD? It’s not that high really. It sounds high to a human evaluating another human. Bostrom made a good point on this—the need to step out of the antropomorphic scale. This thing could very well reach 120 SD (the fact that we wouldn’t even know how to measure and recognize 120 SD is just an indication of our own limitations, nothing more), and make every human look like a clam.
Thinking about it—I think a lot of what we call general intelligence might be that part of the function which after it analyses the nature of the problem strategizes and selects the narrom optimizer, or set of narrow optimizers that must be used to solve it, in what order, with what type of logical connections between the outputs of the one and the input of the other etc. Since the narrow optimizers are run sequentially rather than simultaneously in this type of process, the computing capacity required is not overly large.