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Someone tell the Pebble Sorters: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cLXQnnVWJGo https://youtube.com/watch?v=cLXQnnVWJGo

• hinkley 4y ago
  What the fuck did I just watch? It’s like he started trying to say something in parable form but doesn’t understand how storytelling works.
  • optimalsolver 4y ago
    From the top YT comment: "Pebblesorters value creating heaps of pebbles that have a prime number of stones in them, and are horrified by heaps of pebbles with the "wrong" number of stones. We humans can understand the rule behind their moral intuitions (better than they can, even, since they seemingly haven't realized the rule they're following), but even though we understand what's "right and wrong" from their perspective we still find sorting pebbles a pointless waste of time. Many humans think that any advanced enough artificial intelligence will be moral and good, because it'll be smart enough to understand right from wrong. And an advanced enough AI will understand human morality - maybe better than we do, even, it could perhaps deduce and codify the rules that humanity has been stumbling towards over our millennia of moral progress. But, despite understanding, it won't care any more than understanding pebblesorter morality makes us want to sort pebbles."
    • hinkley 4y ago
      Well that makes it less obscure but if you're telling something in the form of a children's story with cartoons, dropping AI as a concept in the middle of it when you were talking about ancient cultures. If you're going to use analogies, use analogies. Sometimes you have to drop the cleverness and just talk to people.