Re: Re: Empirical data surrounding guards and firewalls.

[Vincent Archer <varcher () denyall com>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:41:26PM -0600, gadgeteer () elegantinnovations org wrote:
> Given Moore's Law and the other rules of thumb regarding the progress of
> computer hardware it will be another 25 to 30 years before we match
> human capacity.
>
> Anyone who says they can achieve such in significantly less time is
> seeking funding. :-)

Or is using the relatively simple reasoning that brains are full of
cruft, overcapacity, and other elements that are not specifically
required for sentience, but devoted to the management of a primate's
body, and we can do a better job.

Emulating a human is very very different from making a sentience. That's
the main flaw of the Turing's test: it attempts to prove the existence
of human-type sentience, not sentience in general.

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