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>>9759201
>There is no reason to suppose that a machine built without a complete understanding of what intelligence even is would somehow magically acquire a human-like general consciousness, let alone surpass it.

There is, we produce all kinds of things which exhibit phenomenon we don't fully understand. The difficulty of understanding does not need to come from the principles involved, it could just come from scale.

If we construct a system from elements whose behaviour we understand so far, at a large enough scale, it could take further effort to understand the behaviour. Nature will behave as it does anyway, and not wait for us.

See for example classical mechanics vs the behaviour of fluids.

there are so many factors its hard to model. this is known as the navier-stokes problem, and is one of the 6 of 7 still unsolved millenium problems. its all about turbulence. if you can solve it you'll be awarded with 1 million dollar$

>"The Navier-Stokes equations of fluid flow, used to model ocean currents, weather patterns and other phenomena, have been dubbed one of the seven most important problems in modern mathematics."

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140224-a-fluid-new-path-in-grand-math-challenge/

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