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I wonder how did you reason that? Because their madness looks similar to humans’?

• dspillett 3y ago
  Perhaps some madness in humans (and other animals with sufficiently complex brains) is part of how we grow our reasoning capabilities. Like a fighter jet that is designed to be a little unstable because that makes them more manoeuvrable with computer aided controls (a stable design will tend to resist changes in flight path more), going off-track is part of how we have ideas: random crap fires in our brains and something triages it, keeping just the useful stuff, or if the less useful stuff gets more attention it is recorded as “let's not do that sort of thing” for future reference. Sometimes those random things are intrusive thoughts (“I wonder what would happen if I snapped and pushed him down those stairs”) sometimes they are bright ideas (“hmm, what if the ground was attracted to the Apple as well?”): the distinction isn't how they are made it is whether the end result would be good or bad overall. Madness in people is sometimes when the control structures stop working to differentiate properly between the two sorts of thoughts, and a dullness in reasoning can be due to these controls being too stringent. Perhaps a future step forward in training AI models for better reasoning and/or more general reasoning is find a way to better emulate this sort of triaged randomness, and some AIs having problems is something we end up accepting as much as we accept natural intelligences sometimes having problems that look similar?
  • ChatGTP 3y ago
    Perhaps reasoning comes from the fact that we're all Aliens wearing VR goolges and playing the game of life together.