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We put far too great an emphasis on the human specifics of an activity. For most utilizations of running (delivering goods or information, hunting prey, etc.) t
by quantified 4y ago
We put far too great an emphasis on the human specifics of an activity. For most utilizations of running (delivering goods or information, hunting prey, etc.) the car, or helicopter, or airplane far exceed the human runner. This is poetic nonsense like "speed of thought". When Boston Robotics gets a robotic runner that sprints faster than a human, then what?
The ML systems are not made of human abilities. They are made of software processes. Jared is a smart and informed guy but that sentence is just nonsensical.
- goatlover 4y ago> When Boston Robotics gets a robotic runner that sprints faster than a human, then what? It enters the Olympics and automates away all sprinters? Or it becomes self-aware and decides to eat all the humans? Or more likely, it gets sold to the military so they can have one more kind of drone that runs on land instead of flies through the air.
- quantified 4y agoRight, sorry, I was directing my question at the "does it surpass human runners" train of thought. Obviously it won't feel a pounding heart, or a thrill of victory if it wins a race, or die of hypernatrimia during a marathon, so it won't surpass our specific cares. Not sure those make a significant difference in the arc of development. It absolutely goes to the military with built-in weapons.