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> $5 for a group of neurons which will make cat sit... What do you mean by this? As in, cats have demonstrably had electrodes or similar used to persuade them
by vermilingua 8y ago
> $5 for a group of neurons which will make cat sit...
What do you mean by this? As in, cats have demonstrably had electrodes or similar used to persuade them to sit?
- mrob 8y agoMost of the arguments ignore premise 5 (time scale). I'm sure that if Stephen Hawking had a magical cat-pausing time freeze machine, unlimited budget, no deadline, every sensor known to science, and a few million similarly equipped assistants, he could have figured out how to get the cat in the cat carrier. People have no intuitive comprehension of what a microsecond feels like. The article references Yudkowsky, but doesn't mention that he wrote a story about this exact issue: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien-message https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...
- red75prime 8y agoIn the argument the cat represents humanity, which is being manipulated by a superintelligence. Humanity is not a single organism, so you can pay a group of people to do some things for you.