[Epistemic status: not serious. Mostly.] In my nightmares, even the rise of machine superintelligence isn’t enough to wipe out technical debt. Suppose the seed to the first true superintelligent agent is based on some fiendish numerical algorithm for supercomputers. Like so many fiendish numerical algorithms for supercomputers, the agent is written in FORTRAN to take advantageContinue reading “The technical debt of the millennia”
Paul Crowley
Minds aren't magic 