Neil Lawrence on Bostrom's "Superintelligence" • /r/MachineLearning

Even if human-like emotional intelligence is necessary, and even if it depends on our limited low bandwidth communication, machine intelligences could just emulate that and then speed it up. Furthermore, it seems unlikely that removing the constraint of low communication bandwidth between minds wouldn't permit any advantages. Furthermore any general AI would have to interact with humans and operate in an anthropized environment at least at the initial stages of its development, which would require it to effectively communicate over low-bandwith interfaces, limited by the human communication bandwith, most likely by using natural language. I found this point one of the weakest of the analysis. Yes uncertainty propagates, but prediction doesn't require absolute detail and precision. Humans can roughly predict the long term future by giving up detail and precision, because even extremely low-detail, abstract, low-precision distributions over the future are useful for planning.