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> how can you spend your life working to get to the garden of Eden, and then not eat the fruit? Even just a taste. Because it's insect-brain level behavior to
by gmd63 3y ago
> how can you spend your life working to get to the garden of Eden, and then not eat the fruit? Even just a taste.
Because it's insect-brain level behavior to surrender in faith to some abstract achievement without understanding its viability or actual desirability.
- bbor 3y agoThey understand the desirability - they’ve been thinking about it for decades. AGI would be massive unexpected help in alleviating poverty, exploring the stars, advancing science, expanding access to quality medical & educational resources, etc etc etc. All of this on top of the more fundamental “IT LIVES!!” primal feeling of accomplishment and power, which I think isn’t something we can dismiss as irrational/“insect-level” offhand. What makes that feeling less virtuous than human yearning for exploration, expression, etc?
- nonbirithm 3y agoMaybe that is the crux of the problem. Human yearning is dual-use.