The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
The paper 'On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines' argues that machines cannot exceed human size, despite speculation by some experts in computer science, philosophy, and physics. The authors present seven distinct arguments to demonstrate that such growth is not merely unlikely but fundamentally impossible. The work was published as a nine-page academic paper with two figures in the arXiv repository in March 2017.
- ▪The paper was authored by Ben Garfinkel, Miles Brundage, Daniel Filan, Carrick Flynn, Jelena Luketina, Michael Page, Anders Sandberg, Andrew Snyder-Beattie, and Max Tegmark.
- ▪It was submitted to arXiv on March 31, 2017, under the categories of Computers and Society and Popular Physics.
- ▪The authors argue that machines exceeding human size is not just implausible but impossible due to seven distinct theoretical constraints.
- ▪The paper is available as a PDF through the arXiv repository and has a DOI assigned via DataCite.
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Computer Science > Computers and Society 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 View a PDF of the paper titled On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines, by Ben Garfinkel and 8 other authors View PDF 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.
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