As you can see here I’ve had more than my fair share of philosophy readings for this life. Besides, Bostrom himself advises that you read his newer stuff.
To clarify: In an unknown language; Think that six words in a row can mean anything. 20 words with two repetitions, almost anything. 2000 words with 400 repetitions, much less (there are fewer structures in the world that could correspond to that structure) and so on. So a whole library has very few allowable interpretations, even if in an unknown language. Some words though have a less than clear meaning. People use them meaning slightly different things, or vastly different things.
‘God’ is an exemplar word in that regard. Many people use it. but it still could be so many different things. If you had to pick up one thing, people would be left. If an AGI had to pick up one meaning, it would be doing the wrong thing. Instead of actually considering the reference of each separate token of the word ‘god’, it would misascribe the same meaning for all instances. This would increase coherence of the CEVed people, but it would not be a precise extrapolation of them. God is a mongrel concept
This would increase coherence of the CEVed people, but it would not be a precise extrapolation of them.
Aha, that makes more sense. But the first part might not be true, if the CEVer has a large enough database on each person. Any increase of group-wide coherence might come at the cost of a greater loss of intra-personal coherence. If my ‘god’ is Spinoza’s and most people’s is a hairy thunderer, the interpreter will make (greater) nonsense of my usage (than needs be) if it construes me as talking about the same thing.
As you can see here I’ve had more than my fair share of philosophy readings for this life. Besides, Bostrom himself advises that you read his newer stuff.
To clarify: In an unknown language; Think that six words in a row can mean anything. 20 words with two repetitions, almost anything. 2000 words with 400 repetitions, much less (there are fewer structures in the world that could correspond to that structure) and so on. So a whole library has very few allowable interpretations, even if in an unknown language. Some words though have a less than clear meaning. People use them meaning slightly different things, or vastly different things. ‘God’ is an exemplar word in that regard. Many people use it. but it still could be so many different things. If you had to pick up one thing, people would be left. If an AGI had to pick up one meaning, it would be doing the wrong thing. Instead of actually considering the reference of each separate token of the word ‘god’, it would misascribe the same meaning for all instances. This would increase coherence of the CEVed people, but it would not be a precise extrapolation of them.
God is a mongrel concept
Aha, that makes more sense. But the first part might not be true, if the CEVer has a large enough database on each person. Any increase of group-wide coherence might come at the cost of a greater loss of intra-personal coherence. If my ‘god’ is Spinoza’s and most people’s is a hairy thunderer, the interpreter will make (greater) nonsense of my usage (than needs be) if it construes me as talking about the same thing.