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And here I am halfway through Michael Crichton's novel "Prey" ...
Huh. Looks interesting but I have a weird feeling it might be the same old sappy boring thriller. Opinions so far?
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> By pointing to rational or moral failures, you already imply that we are supposed to act in a certain way. Don't keep such an open mind that your brain falls out. > If it is irrational that history repeats itself, do you think that it would be rational if history progressed towards some goal It has, often. For example, 50 years ago a bunch of fossil fuel executives decided it would be best to let the planet burn, s…
This is a major question in philosophy, not just some random aside in an HN comment thread. Most famously, Hegel believed that human history trends & tends towards the perfection of human nature and society. Many other philosophers and philosophies fundamentally disagree with Hegel, and assert that history has no teleological purpose built into it. Perhaps acknowledge the depth and history of this question before thr…
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(Submitted title was "“Self-reflecting” AI agents explore like animals". We changed it in keeping with the HN guidelines - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .)
Hi dang. Can you whitelist some URLs for commenting from a new account? Like wikipedia.org and libquotes.com Looks like you shadowbanned this account. Maybe for posting a URL in the first comment.
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This is a major question in philosophy, not just some random aside in an HN comment thread. Most famously, Hegel believed that human history trends & tends towards the perfection of human nature and society. Many other philosophers and philosophies fundamentally disagree with Hegel, and assert that history has no teleological purpose built into it. Perhaps acknowledge the depth and history of this question before thr…
I'm not going to debate whether or not fossil fuel executives choosing to lie to us and burn the planet is moral or rational, "because teleology". Ugh.
You seem to feel fairly certain that humanity is "on a path", and that there's going with that flow and there's going against it. You're welcome to believe that, but it's far from a settled POV.
As for lying executives, they are immoral and only rational when viewed through the lens of their own selfishness.
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It's very cool work. I've been wondering for a while at what the next steps in adding 'inefficiencies' to AI processing would look like, commenting the other day to a friend that what's needed in the next 18 months is getting AI to be able to replicate the Eureka moments in the shower where latent information is reconstructed in parallel to processing tangential topics. Going from "attention is all you need" to "atte…
> getting AI to be able to replicate the Eureka moments in the shower where latent information is reconstructed in parallel to processing tangential topics. I've been playing with this part specifically and it's really amazing stuff. Having the model concurrently model internal monologue and output for a task, but allowing the internal monologue to be as focused or unfocused as the model sees fit. You end up with sit…
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I'm not going to debate whether or not fossil fuel executives choosing to lie to us and burn the planet is moral or rational, "because teleology". Ugh.
Not the point at all. You seem to feel fairly certain that humanity is "on a path", and that there's going with that flow and there's going against it. You're welcome to believe that, but it's far from a settled POV. As for lying executives, they are immoral and only rational when viewed through the lens of their own selfishness.
Look at a climate graph. That's the path I'm talking about. Look into the Anthropocene Extinction - that's us. We're walking that path; or more accurately, sleepwalking on it. It's not subjective whatsoever; there's mountains of hard data on this.
Extrapolating that into teleology / philosophy / my worldview was entirely your invention and interpretation.