> Some mistake this unpredictability for “free will”, assuming that because a BI can’t explain why it did something, the decision must be the result of a magica

> Some mistake this unpredictability for “free will”, assuming that because a BI can’t explain why it did something, the decision must be the result of a magical process, a “soul”. And conversely, I've seen some debates about "free will" where one side at some point would all but say outright (and in one case, did say so) that if some thing's behaviour is predictable, then that thing can't have free will. > three billion years of Darwinian evolution with reward functions such as “escape a predator” and “have as much sex as possible”. Unsurprisingly, this selected for skills such as bipedal locomotion Is it unsurprising? Quadrupedal locomotion seems to be better suited for prey species; not to mention the obvious problems with reproduction. > If they devote their time to making sure they don’t forget things, how could they allocate their compute towards productive civilizational ends? Somehow this reminds me of the olden personal microcomputers that spent most of their CPU's time refreshing the DRAM...