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Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence

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The Future of Machine Intelligence

In principle, there are more than two ways one can in principle get to at least a weak form of superintelligence. I think that initially might happen through genetic selection and genetic engineering. The limiting variation of that would be where you would literally try to copy biology through the process known as whole brain emulation. At the other end of the extreme, you have these purely synthetic approaches where you pay no heed to how biology achieves intelligence.

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