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> …it is pretty sad since this is not a matter of taste or political inclination: there must be a single truth This is more of a salient point that you perhaps
by lowsong 2y ago
> …it is pretty sad since this is not a matter of taste or political inclination: there must be a single truth
This is more of a salient point that you perhaps realized. In life there is no single absolute, unknowable truth. Philosophy has spent the entire span of human existence grappling with this topic. The real risk with AI is not that we build some humanity-destroying AGI, but that we build a machine that is 'convincing enough' — and the idea that such a machine would be built by people who believe in objective truth is the most worrying part.
- thrance 2y agoDepends, if you're a realist [1] (like most) then there can be such a thing as absolute truth, that you may not always be able to access. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism?wprov=sf...
- askl56 2y agoThis is teleologically false. A teleological argument that assumes truth is contingent upon a specific worldview would indeed be flawed, because it would make truth an artifact of a given perspective rather than something independent of it.