This issue is whether it is possible to properly formalise the concept of “territory ” and program it into the machine. What is the territory? How do you know it is the territory? Can the concept of “territory” be formalised so that not even a superintelligent machine can distinguish between your means of identifying the territory and the actual territory? If so: how do you do that?
The issue might get into some hairy philosophical areas—if the machine finds out (or becomes convinced) that it is inside a simulation.
I personally have no objection to living my life in a nice well built simulation (along with friends living in it too). Is it me confusing map with a territory or is me in a simulator equivalent to me outside simulator?
Is there even any territory to the notion of self, anyway?
This issue is whether it is possible to properly formalise the concept of “territory ” and program it into the machine. What is the territory? How do you know it is the territory? Can the concept of “territory” be formalised so that not even a superintelligent machine can distinguish between your means of identifying the territory and the actual territory? If so: how do you do that?
The issue might get into some hairy philosophical areas—if the machine finds out (or becomes convinced) that it is inside a simulation.
Yep. There’s also this thing:
I personally have no objection to living my life in a nice well built simulation (along with friends living in it too). Is it me confusing map with a territory or is me in a simulator equivalent to me outside simulator?
Is there even any territory to the notion of self, anyway?
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