On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
2017/03/31 by Ben Garfinkel, Garfinkel, Ben, Miles Brundage +15 · 11 voices
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1703.10987
Abstract
In recent years, a number of prominent computer scientists, along with academics in fields such as philosophy and physics, have lent credence to the notion that machines may one day become as large as humans. Many have further argued that machines could even come to exceed human size by a significant margin. However, there are at least seven distinct arguments that preclude this outcome. We show that it is not only implausible that machines will ever exceed human size, but in fact impossible.
Discussions
- On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017) [hn, 85 points, 95 comments]
- The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017) [hn, 59 points, 50 comments]
- On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines [hn, 44 points, 28 comments]
- sorry to literature-check you in public like this, but arxiv.org/abs/1703.10987 [bsky, 17 points, 2 comments]
- The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017) [hn, 10 points, 3 comments]
- On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017) [pdf] [hn, 4 points, 1 comments]
- On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines [hn, 2 points, 0 comments]
- Obligatory: arxiv.org/abs/1703.10987 [bsky, 2 points, 1 comments]
- On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines [hn, 1 points, 0 comments]
- On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017) [hn, 1 points, 0 comments]
- On a similar point (though in this case, the writers obviously know their arguments are fallacious), see "On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines" arxiv.org/abs/1703.10987 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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