"... I’m sure I remember a much younger Eliezer Yudkowsky cautioning that Doug Lenat should have perceived a non-zero chance of hard takeoff at the moment of its birth."
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rJLviHqJMTy8WQkow/recursion-...
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rJLviHqJMTy8WQkow/recursion-...
> This is a road that does not lead to Friendly AI, only to AGI. I doubt this has anything to do with Lenat's motives - but I'm glad the source code isn't published and I don't think you'd be doing a service to the human species by trying to reimplement it.
To my mind -- and maybe this is just the benefit of hindsight -- this seems way too overcautious on Yudkowsky's part.
[1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/t47TeAbBYxYgqDGQT/let-s-reim...
I would bet against it being possible to implement consciousness on a PDP, but I wouldn’t be very confident about it.