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Humans put googly eyes on rocks and talk to trees - I don't know if we can engineer that out.
by realce 4y ago
Humans put googly eyes on rocks and talk to trees - I don't know if we can engineer that out.
- danaris 4y agoI think there are two distinct phenomena occurring here: there's emotionally treating nonsapient objects, plants, and animals as if they are friends, and coming to care about them, and then there's intellectually treating ML algorithms as if they are fully sapient, fully intelligent autonomous agents with the same basic capabilities as humans. The former smooths the way for the latter, to be sure, but it does not require it. Almost no one who's putting googly eyes on a boulder is going to insist in all seriousness that Bouldy is capable of intelligent thought, or that it has rights that can be violated.
- spoiler 4y ago> Almost no one who's putting googly eyes on a boulder is going to insist in all seriousness that Bouldy is capable of intelligent thought, or that it has rights that can be violated. You dare discriminate against my pet rock?! We can't be friends!
- falcolas 4y agoEngineer it out? Probably not. But folks acting as experts in these discussions should keep it in mind. Human analogies are easy, but when something is this close to the "Turing test" line, we should try and avoid them.