This seems like a generalization of something that humans are also guilty of. The way we win against other animals also can look kind of dumb from the perspective of those animals.
Suppose you’re a cheetah. The elegant, smart way to take down pray is chase them down in a rapid sprint. The best takedowns are ones where you artfully outmaneuver your prey and catch them right at a moment when they think they are successfully evading you.
Meanwhile you look on humans with disdain. They can take down the same prey as you, but they do it in dumb ways. Sometimes they throw things at the prey to kill it. Other times they run it down until it collapses from heat exhaustion. That works, you have to admit, but it seems ugly and inelegant.
Because we have greater general intelligence we can try strategies that other animals can’t. These strategies look really weird to them on their own values. I read your point as saying we’re in a similar relationship to AGI: it will be able to do things we can’t and so will sometimes solve problems in weird, inelegant ways that nonetheless work.
This seems like a generalization of something that humans are also guilty of. The way we win against other animals also can look kind of dumb from the perspective of those animals.
Suppose you’re a cheetah. The elegant, smart way to take down pray is chase them down in a rapid sprint. The best takedowns are ones where you artfully outmaneuver your prey and catch them right at a moment when they think they are successfully evading you.
Meanwhile you look on humans with disdain. They can take down the same prey as you, but they do it in dumb ways. Sometimes they throw things at the prey to kill it. Other times they run it down until it collapses from heat exhaustion. That works, you have to admit, but it seems ugly and inelegant.
Because we have greater general intelligence we can try strategies that other animals can’t. These strategies look really weird to them on their own values. I read your point as saying we’re in a similar relationship to AGI: it will be able to do things we can’t and so will sometimes solve problems in weird, inelegant ways that nonetheless work.