If anyone is interested in AI, I highly recommend joining Less Wrong, a community started by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. He started the community to convince people to focus on the "friendly AI problem". [1] I actually recommend that everyone read LW, but especially if you're interested in AI. [1] In a nutshell, the friendly AI problem is: assume we create an AI. It may rapidly become more intelligent than us, i…
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#302If anyone is interested in AI, I highly recommend joining Less Wrong, a community started by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. He started the community to convince people to focus on the "friendly AI problem". [1] I actually recommend that everyone read LW, but especially if you're interested in AI. [1] In a nutshell, the friendly AI problem is: assume we create an AI. It may rapidly become more intelligent than us, i…
Any suggestions for getting started in the LW community? Its barrier to entry means I can't seem to vote on anything, etc. It's quite intimidating really.
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#303If anyone is interested in AI, I highly recommend joining Less Wrong, a community started by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. He started the community to convince people to focus on the "friendly AI problem". [1] I actually recommend that everyone read LW, but especially if you're interested in AI. [1] In a nutshell, the friendly AI problem is: assume we create an AI. It may rapidly become more intelligent than us, i…
> friendly AI problem nooo, please!! not any more of this kurzweil crap. guys wake up! This world is not some asimov sci-fi story. friendly ai I always get a headache when I read that term online. ppl seem to go crazy about the machines taking over earth idea but this whole debate is so utterly useless! If all the effort fapping to conscious AI and friendly AI would be put into concrete ai research (agi as well as ap…
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Optimization power, possibly divided by available resources. In a game of Chess, only a narrow set of moves will let me steer the future into a winning state. Well, the same is true for the Game of Life (the real one, not Conway's): we humans are intelligent because we're able to steer the future through probability to a-priori incredibly unlikely outcomes. Compare walking vs moving your limbs randomly.
It was a rhetorical question. The point was once you have a definition of intelligence - yours is one of many fine definitions - you can refine that into a metric for comparing different intelligences, and then you have a way for a comparison function given two program descriptions to determine which is "more intelligent". Building artificial intelligence then reduces to undirected search, assuming infinite CPU and R…
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If you had a machine with infinite CPU power and infinite RAM you could _evolve_ an AI. Greg Egan wrote a great story about that: http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/ Someone tries it, with mixed results.
And what do you do after evolving it? We might have less luck dissecting it and figuring out how it works than we do with human brains. It would be a total black box. And the end product is highly adapted for the specific fitness function used to evaluate it and probably wouldn't be good on anything else.
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It has everything to do with accuracy. Smaller targets take more time to aim; that implies your accuracy depends on how close to the optimal speed you aim.
I still don’t see what this time-distance-size relation has to say about this case. Do you mean that one could infer since arrow and title are equal in size and close together it requires minimal time to point from the one to the other? It seems like breaking a butterfly on a wheel referring to Fitt’s law here. Sorry for nit-picking, maybe I’m missing something.
It's not that complicated.
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#307If anyone is interested in AI, I highly recommend joining Less Wrong, a community started by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. He started the community to convince people to focus on the "friendly AI problem". [1] I actually recommend that everyone read LW, but especially if you're interested in AI. [1] In a nutshell, the friendly AI problem is: assume we create an AI. It may rapidly become more intelligent than us, i…
No, I'm sorry. Please, no one join this group. Madness lies for those that do. It is such inane pseudo intellectual compulsiveness. You would be better off as a scientologist.
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No, I'm sorry. Please, no one join this group. Madness lies for those that do. It is such inane pseudo intellectual compulsiveness. You would be better off as a scientologist.
Do you have any reasons for the things you say?
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> How would you convince an intelligent being that could not feel pain that it exists at all? Assuming the being is "reasonable" (in this context it would mean it's willing to accept that there exist concepts that it may not understand or directly experience, and is willing to trust us), we could just point out the chemical and electrical phenomena correlated with pain and say that it's something that causes a certai…
> Actually, my point about pain was that it does exist, precisely because it can be examined and explained within a scientific framework. The physical processes of pain (ie. the electricity) can be observed scientifically, but the "sensation" of pain (to use your word from before) cannot. But it is the "sensation" of pain that gives it its moral significance, otherwise inflicting pain would be no different morally th…
You state this as though it's a given, but it's not. You're assuming Dualism. So, of course you end up with Dualism.
> But it is the "sensation" of pain that gives it its moral significance, otherwise inflicting pain would be no different morally than flipping on the switch to an electrical circuit.
This is a silly over-simplification. Complexity matters. The patterns of electro-chemical reactions that occur when I inflict pain on another human cause that human to emote in a way that I can relate to because of the electro-chemical reactions that have been happening in me and those around me since before my birth. So what?
It's in no way comparable to flipping a light switch, except in the largely irrelevant detail that electricity was part of each system.
The fact that an incredibly complex system consisting of individuals, language, and society should yield different results from three pieces of metal and some current shouldn't be the least bit surprising, and is not a reasonable argument for dualism, or p-zombies.
Here's my take on the p-zombie "problem". We can say all kinds of shit, but it doesn't have to make sense. For example I can say "This table is also an electron". That's a sentence. It evokes some kind of imagery, but it's utter nonsense. It doesn't point out some deep mystery about tables or electrons. It's just nonsense.
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#310If anyone is interested in AI, I highly recommend joining Less Wrong, a community started by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. He started the community to convince people to focus on the "friendly AI problem". [1] I actually recommend that everyone read LW, but especially if you're interested in AI. [1] In a nutshell, the friendly AI problem is: assume we create an AI. It may rapidly become more intelligent than us, i…
But … this idea of Friendly AI is nonsense. It seems like a yearning for religion, but in an atheist-compatible framework.