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Isn't there a declining marginal value to the amount of sensory information available and the amount of processing you do on it?

Information and calculation beyond a certain point may simply becoming "boring."



Fair point, GavinB. If you defined "efficiency" in terms of achieving the most benefit from an eyeball using the fewest computations, then I'm not sure whether a Bayesian superintelligence could approach "efficiency". Maybe the theoretically optimal program to run on the eyeball's input, would itself require exponentially vast brainpower to calculate!

But I would concede a much higher chance that a Bayesian superintelligence could get bored at exactly the right time, than that it could simulate all possible universes.


Do you think it would be a "good" thing if the average intelligence level was bolstered by 40 points? Can you think of any ill side effects from this possibility?


increased existential depression...




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