Heed the typical mind fallacy. Other people are not you. What you find interesting is not necessarily what others find interesting. Your dilemmas or existential issues are not their dilemmas or existential issues.
For example, I don’t find the question of “shall we enforce a police state” interesting. The answer is “No”, case closed, we’re done. Notice that I’m speaking about myself—you, being a different person, might well be highly interested in extended discussion of the topic.
I strongly disagree and think it is unrelated to the typical mind fallacy. Ok, the word “interesting” was too unprecise. However, the argument deserves a deeper look in my opinion. Let me rephrase to: “Discussions of AI sometimes end, where they have serious implications regarding real life.” Especially! if you do not enjoy to entertain the thought of a police state and increased surveillance, you should be worried if respected rational essayists come to conclusions that include them as an option. Closing your case when confronted with possible results from a chain of argumentation won’t make them disappear. And a police state to stay with the example is either an issue for almost everybody (if it comes to existance) or nobody. Hence, this detached from and not about my personal values.
Let me rephrase to: “Discussions of AI sometimes end, where they have serious implications regarding real life.”
I agree, that would be a bad thing.
Closing your case when confronted with possible results from a chain of argumentation won’t make them disappear.
Of course not, but given my values and my estimates of how likely are certain future scenarios, I already came to certain conclusions. For them to change, either the values or the probabilities have to change. I find it unlikely that my values will change as the result of eschatological discussions on the ’net, and the discussions about the probabilities of Skynet FOOMing can be had (and probably should be had) without throwing the police state into the mix.
In general, I don’t find talking about very specific scenarios in the presence of large Knightian uncertainty to be terribly useful.
I strongly disagree and think it is unrelated to the typical mind fallacy. Ok, the word “interesting” was too unprecise. However, the argument deserves a deeper look in my opinion. Let me rephrase to: “Discussions of AI sometimes end, where they have serious implications regarding real life.” Especially! if you do not enjoy to entertain the thought of a police state and increased surveillance, you should be worried if respected rational essayists come to conclusions that include them as an option. Closing your case when confronted with possible results from a chain of argumentation won’t make them disappear. And a police state to stay with the example is either an issue for almost everybody (if it comes to existance) or nobody. Hence, this detached from and not about my personal values.
I agree, that would be a bad thing.
Of course not, but given my values and my estimates of how likely are certain future scenarios, I already came to certain conclusions. For them to change, either the values or the probabilities have to change. I find it unlikely that my values will change as the result of eschatological discussions on the ’net, and the discussions about the probabilities of Skynet FOOMing can be had (and probably should be had) without throwing the police state into the mix.
In general, I don’t find talking about very specific scenarios in the presence of large Knightian uncertainty to be terribly useful.