I should have been clear: “doing things” is a form of input/output since the AI must output some tokens or other signals to get anything done
in a world where mechinterp is not 100%, the answer is logically: input/output is what matters.
we won’t be able to read the thoughts anyways, so why base our judgment on it?
but see my comment on why survival fitness in cyberspace is the one axis where most of the relevant input/output will be generated.
I should have been clear: “doing things” is a form of input/output since the AI must output some tokens or other signals to get anything done
in a world where mechinterp is not 100%, the answer is logically: input/output is what matters.
we won’t be able to read the thoughts anyways, so why base our judgment on it?
but see my comment on why survival fitness in cyberspace is the one axis where most of the relevant input/output will be generated.