chew on this

[chuntankhamen]

" Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the

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[qed]

The definition of "ultraintelligent machine" is incomptabile with the definition of "machine".

[chuntankhamen]

you saying that machines can't be intelligent? i take that as an insult.

[qed]

Machines can HOST intelligence, but they are not intelligent themselves.

"It's a machine, it doesn't get scared, it doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad. It just runs programs."

[king_kai]

yeah, newton crosby in the house!

[anonymous]

How about the simulation argument?
http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html