Evolution is all about instrumental convergence IMO. The “goal” of evolution, or rather the driving force behind it, is reproduction. This leads to all kinds of instrumental goals, like developing methods for food acquisition, attack and defense, impressing the opposite sex, etc. “A chicken is an egg’s way of making another egg”, as Samuel Butler put it.
Yes, yes, and very bad wording from me! Yes me too crabs or mastication seem like attractors. Yes eggs are incredibly powerfull technology. What I meant was: when I see someone says « instrumental convergence », most of the time I (mis?)percieve: « Just because we can imagine a superintelligent agent acting like a monkey, we are utterly and fully convinced that it must act like a monkey, because acting like a monkey is a universal attractor that anything intelligent enough tend to, even though, for some reason, ants must have forgot it was the direction. And slim Molts. And plants. And dinosaure. And birds. And every human administration. Like they were more sensitive to local gradient than the promises of a long term computational power.
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Yes, yes, and very bad wording from me! Yes me too crabs or mastication seem like attractors. Yes eggs are incredibly powerfull technology. What I meant was: when I see someone says « instrumental convergence », most of the time I (mis?)percieve: « Just because we can imagine a superintelligent agent acting like a monkey, we are utterly and fully convinced that it must act like a monkey, because acting like a monkey is a universal attractor that anything intelligent enough tend to, even though, for some reason, ants must have forgot it was the direction. And slim Molts. And plants. And dinosaure. And birds. And every human administration. Like they were more sensitive to local gradient than the promises of a long term computational power.