
Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence
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The Importance of Big Data
A lot of what you're saying strikes me as what nonbelievers call magical thinking. Can you give an example? Yeah, so bear with me. So let's talk about something that's a little taste of super intelligence, which is big data. You could just to take an example, let's take history. But I don't believe that there's no amount of computing power that would allow no level of quote intelligence that would be able to foresee what could have happened under the except for God. It seems like they are certain ability to choose actions to achieve goals. The super intelligence would have a greater ability of that kind, not an infinite, the perfect capability, but just a greater
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