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That’s like you and your cat collaborating on writing a great novel.
by jimbokun 2y ago
That’s like you and your cat collaborating on writing a great novel.
- GeoAtreides 2y agoNo, it's not, cats are not sapient. Sapient-sapient relationships are different than sapient-sentient relationships.
- jaggederest 2y agoWhy are cats not sapient, and for how long will they be non-sapient? What do you think the likelihood that we will uplift cats to sapience is? Is it zero? Ten thousand years is a long time.
- jhbadger 2y agoI like David Brin's novels where humans uplift various primates and cetaceans. Do many other authors do that? It seems uncommon as compared to AI-driven futures.
- jaggederest 2y agoI'm rereading that series lately actually, there have been a few others who riffed on the concept but none as in depth sadly. The best I've read recently were Adrian Tchaikovsky's books, all quite excellent and fairly centered around uplift.
- whimsicalism 2y agothe obvious other recommendation is Adrian Tchaikovsky’s books
- hoseja 2y agoFrom Minds' perspective, you are less sapient than a cat is from human one.
- geysersam 2y agoWhat if the dance of creation mentioned is the every day life of a cat and his person. A positive example of collaboration across vast differences. A cats life is probably not as incomprehensible as ours are to them, but they are still pretty mysterious. Would we be transparent and uninteresting in they eyes of AIs? Maybe not.
- jaggederest 2y agoI'm not sure that's too outre. My cats know many things that I do not. I'm working on giving them vocabulary, to boot. Over and under on the first uplifted-cat-written novel, 500 years.