Comment by fabiospampinato
8 years ago
> No computer will ever demonstrate actual intelligence
Such statements are impossible to be proven right, as, assuming you consider yourself actually intelligent, that implies we are not inside a computer ourselves, which I'd argue is impossible to prove.
If we're running in a simulation, the host computation hardware may be different from what you imagine a computer to be. For example, we could be an experiment of "is life possible in a euclidean universe".
Since the current standard model of physics requires an 11-dimensional universe for all the math to work out, it's quite possible that we live in a space which we cannot understand. That makes it even less likely that we could program a computer which would understand it better than we do.
> that implies we are not inside a computer ourselves, which I'd argue is impossible to prove.
Perhaps not. But some statements cannot be disproven and yet still should not be taken seriously.
But I think you are right that, while correct in claiming that the Singularity has never been proven, mimixco is also making statements that cannot be proven.