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AreTheAndroids_James Tagg_small_p2.pdf
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Apr 28, 2015Source: House Oversight
take the idea of collecting information to its logical conclusion you could gather all the information in the Universe at a moment in time. In 1814, Laplace put this idea in an essay. He proposed an immensely powerful being observes the position and momentum of every particle in the Universe. Armed with a
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d of acknowledging the centrality of knowledge to intelligence, the dystopian scenarios confuse an artificial general intelligence of the future with Laplace’s demon, the mythical being that knows the location and momentum of every particle in the universe and feeds them into equations for physical laws to
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