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Unless that 'etc' is working very hard, I don't think you are seriously claiming that humans and their tech can do everything another animal can do. And if you
by robotresearcher 3y ago
Unless that 'etc' is working very hard, I don't think you are seriously claiming that humans and their tech can do everything another animal can do. And if you were, we would only have to consider energy efficiency to save the analogy.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoWhat can animals do that humans with tools can't? Energy efficiency only matters in comparison to the energy you can obtain: for animals, that means eating stuff. For plants, it means absorbing sunlight. For us, it means harnessing forms of energy no other living thing has ever deigned to.
- goatlover 3y agoThis is in the context of AGI, not artificial life. We're not concerned with making an AGI that can photosynthesize or lay eggs. That's not what general intelligence refers to.
- robotresearcher 3y agoThat's correct. An analogy to a thing is not that thing.