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Precisely. So much theory around super-intelligences does very little to actually address the nature of intelligence or awareness, it merely treats intelligence
by InclinedPlane 12y ago
Precisely. So much theory around super-intelligences does very little to actually address the nature of intelligence or awareness, it merely treats intelligence like horsepower or computing cycles. This despite the fact that we've spent almost a century proving that intelligence differs greatly from raw computing power, and is a far more complex and subtle thing.
We don't know what the returns on computational power are in regards to intelligence levels, it may actually be non-linear (one way or the other). Or it may be mostly uncorrelated.
- api 12y agoAll that is true and more. Intelligence is bad enough, but start talking about consciousness and sentience and we don't even know what we don't know. Our understanding there is so spotty there are major camps of people who want to just chicken out on the whole question and claim thes things do not exist. Humans don't like to admit they don't understand things... Threatens the ego.