Ok this article is good but the tangent into the singularity is just stupid:
>In fact, forget about worms—we barely have computers powerful enough to emulate the hardware of a Super Nintendo.
He just disproved his own point: Emulation is hard, but it's possible to run much faster software directly optimized for your system or build it in hardware.
>If you talk to anyone who does serious work in artificial intelligence (and it's significant that the people most afraid of AI and nanotech have the least experience with it) they will tell you that progress is slow and linear, just like in other scientific fields.
What?! Has he actually talked to anyone doing "serious work in artificial intelligence"? I am certain they would not say it is "slow and linear".
>In fact, forget about worms—we barely have computers powerful enough to emulate the hardware of a Super Nintendo.
He just disproved his own point: Emulation is hard, but it's possible to run much faster software directly optimized for your system or build it in hardware.
>If you talk to anyone who does serious work in artificial intelligence (and it's significant that the people most afraid of AI and nanotech have the least experience with it) they will tell you that progress is slow and linear, just like in other scientific fields.
What?! Has he actually talked to anyone doing "serious work in artificial intelligence"? I am certain they would not say it is "slow and linear".