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I think it's a case of "we'll know it when we see it". I agree it looks like moving the goalposts, but I think most people would agree that current LMs just don

• wizeman 4y ago
  > I think it's a case of "we'll know it when we see it". I agree it looks like moving the goalposts, but I think most people would agree that current LMs just don't feel like AGIs. Heh, that sounds like a dangerous slippery slope. One day we're going to have real, "conscious" (whatever that means) AGI robots walking around us and people are still going to say "they don't feel like AGIs" (which is going to be used as a justification for cruelty, slavery, etc). Perhaps because they wouldn't behave exactly like us (or even if they would!).
  • kelseyfrog 4y ago
    There's the anchored functionalists, the evasive functionalists, and the metaphysical impossiblists. The anchored functionalists, have a threshold at which they will accept AGI and stick to it. The evasive functionalists will move their functional threshold because they feel uneasy about accepting an existence of AGI and the metaphysical impossibilists will never accept AGI on metaphysical grounds ie: it's incompatible with the way the universe is constructed/reality. I agree, there's going to be a point where AGI ends up existing, modifying social relations, and reshaping society and we're still going to be having this conversation. It feels as beyond the pale as someone who would today who would believe in a flat earth, epicycles upon epicycles in order to support non-existence.