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arXiv:1703.10987 (cs)
[Submitted on 31 Mar 2017]

Title:On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines

Authors:Ben Garfinkel, Miles Brundage, Daniel Filan, Carrick Flynn,
Jelena Luketina, Michael Page, Anders Sandberg, Andrew Snyder-Beattie
, Max Tegmark
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    Abstract: In recent years, a number of prominent computer
    scientists, along with academics in fields such as philosophy and
    physics, have lent credence to the notion that machines may one
    day become as large as humans. Many have further argued that
    machines could even come to exceed human size by a significant
    margin. However, there are at least seven distinct arguments that
    preclude this outcome. We show that it is not only implausible
    that machines will ever exceed human size, but in fact
    impossible.

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures
Subjects: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Popular Physics
          (physics.pop-ph)
Cite as:  arXiv:1703.10987 [cs.CY]
          (or arXiv:1703.10987v1 [cs.CY] for this version)

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From: Carrick Flynn [view email]
[v1] Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:14:39 UTC (17 KB)
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