What is superintelligence?
A superintelligent intellect (a superintelligence, sometimes called ultraintelligence) is one that has the capacity to radically outperform the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom, and social skills. Sometimes a distinction is made between weak and strong superintelligence. Weak superintelligence is what you would get if you could run a human intellect at an accelerated clock speed, such as by uploading it to a fast computer [see What is uploading? 08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000D0000005F00520065006600350030003100300036003600310038000000 ]. If the uploads clock-rate were a thousand times that of a biological brain, it would perceive reality as being slowed down by a factor of a thousand. It would think a thousand times more thoughts in a given time interval than its biological counterpart. Strong superintelligence refers to an intellect that is not only faster than a human brain but also smarter in a qualitat
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