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Maybe I don’t understand your point, but our senses are also compressed to some extent. Your synapses fire or don’t fire, providing digitized input for some of
by mattnewton 6y ago
Maybe I don’t understand your point, but our senses are also compressed to some extent. Your synapses fire or don’t fire, providing digitized input for some of your senses like hearing. At any point there is a discrete amount of hormones in your body. etc etc. That doesn’t seem categorically different from any man made sensor.
- jchrisa 6y agoOur sensorium could be indistinguishable from how it'd be in a simulation without impacting my point. Software can hop from host to host (all Turing machines can simulate each other) but living intelligence is embodied. Because of this, no matter how "smart" computers get, we can't trust them not to do stupid stuff. They are smart like that kid in high school who comes up with a formula to turn the world into silly putty, and is stupid enough to use it. There is more than one kind of intelligence, here the argument is that some kinds of intelligence require having skin in the game.
- sgillen 6y agoBut would it be impossible to have artificial “skin in the game”? Is there no robot body that could serve this purpose?
- selestify 6y agoWhy isn’t computer hardware already as “embodied” in the physical world as our brain matter is?
- mcguire 6y agoWe can't trust people not to do stupid stuff.
- D-Coder 6y ago> They are smart like that kid in high school who comes up with a formula to turn the world into silly putty, and is stupid enough to use it. So that kid isn't intelligent?