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> It seems like a lot of folks just want to pooh pooh any possible outcome. I'm not sure why this is. Possibly because of animosity toward big tech It's much m
by 323 5y ago
> It seems like a lot of folks just want to pooh pooh any possible outcome. I'm not sure why this is. Possibly because of animosity toward big tech
It's much more simple, and more deep: most humans believe they are special/unique/non-machine like spiritual beings. Anything suggesting they could be as simple as the result of mechanical matrix multiplications is deeply disturbing and unacceptable.
There is a rich recent anti-AGI literature written by philosophy people which basically boils down to this: "a machine could never be as meaningful and creative as I am, because I am human, while the AGI is just operations on bits".
- visarga 5y agoThere was a time when we were proud that Earth was the center of the universe, nobody dare say otherwise!
- hprotagonist 5y agothough at the same time, and in the same population, the existence of other planets full of conscious beings was basically non-controversial: Life, as it exists on Earth in the form of men, animals and plants, is to be found, let us suppose in a high form in the solar and stellar regions. Rather than think that so many stars and parts of the heavens are uninhabited and that this earth of ours alone is peopled—and that with beings perhaps of an inferior type—we will suppose that in every region there are inhabitants, differing in nature by rank and all owing their origin to God, who is the center and circumference of all stellar regions. Of the inhabitants then of worlds other than our own we can know still less having no standards by which to appraise them. Nicholas of Cusa, c1440; Cardinal and Bishop