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well, "evolutionary pressure on software" seems to be driving laptops to be increasingly segfault-free and there are instances where individual laptops get mor

by pas 2y ago

well, "evolutionary pressure on software" seems to be driving laptops to be increasingly segfault-free and there are instances where individual laptops get more and more segfault averse as time (and updates) happen ... the problem with characterizing learning as agency is that right now there's god-knows-how many billions of dollars burning on the altar of transformer networks, and it will lead to some learning behavior added to absolutely everything. (and of course this leads to an argument similar to "god of the gaps" where consciousness becomes less and less unexplainable)

h0l0cube 2y ago
> the problem with characterizing learning as agency This is only a problem if it is incorrect… depending on your moral leaning. Certainly having our automatons self organize and fight for their own emancipation could be a problem for those relying on their labor. Though the characterization I’m making is not specifically learning, but being able to act (or think) as an individual via a feedback loop. It seems that this is common to all allegedly conscious life in meatspace