Previously, on first reading, this seemed quite plausible to me, but now, after some time of reflection, I have come to the conclusion that it is not, and Yudkowsky is right. If we continue in the same terms of shoggots and other things … Then I would say that there is a shoggot there, it’s just a shoggot of the Chinese room, it’s not that he sits there, understands everything and just doesn’t want to talk to you, no, you and your words are as incomprehensible to him as he is to you, and he is fundamentally very stupid, only able to understand the translation instructions and execute them without error, however, thanks to the huge array of translation data on which he applies these instructions, he is able to perform all shown tasks.
And in fact, with symmetrical incomprehensibility for each other, this is precisely the difference, a shoggoth has this huge dataset about people with which it works at an acceleration of 20M times, and people do not have the same dataset on shoggots that they worked on at the same acceleration, in fact, they don’t even have 20M parallel people working on it, because people don’t have a dataset on shoggots at all.
That is, it cannot be said about a shoggoth that it has a high intelligence, on the contrary, it is very low, but thanks to the enormous speed of work and the huge amount of cached information, it still has a very high, close to human, short-term optimized strength.
In other words, a shoggoth has a lot of power, but it’s very inefficient, especially if we talk about the standard list of human, except for speaking, because it does everything through this extra prism. So it’s kind of like making a Go program speak a language by associating the language with board states and games won.
Because of this superfluous superstructure, at very high power it will be able to mimic a wide range of human tasks, but it won’t do it to its full potential because it’s based on an inappropriate structure. So the efficiency in human tasks will be approximately the same as that of a person in mathematics tasks.
That is, Yudkowsky is right, a shoggot is not an average of a bunch of parallel mental streams of people who switch between each other, these are cones of branches of probability trees diverging in both directions, and its different faces are not even faces’ masks, these are the faces of Jesus on a toast or a dog, human tendency to apothenia with finding human faces and facial expressions in completely alien processes.
Previously, on first reading, this seemed quite plausible to me, but now, after some time of reflection, I have come to the conclusion that it is not, and Yudkowsky is right. If we continue in the same terms of shoggots and other things … Then I would say that there is a shoggot there, it’s just a shoggot of the Chinese room, it’s not that he sits there, understands everything and just doesn’t want to talk to you, no, you and your words are as incomprehensible to him as he is to you, and he is fundamentally very stupid, only able to understand the translation instructions and execute them without error, however, thanks to the huge array of translation data on which he applies these instructions, he is able to perform all shown tasks. And in fact, with symmetrical incomprehensibility for each other, this is precisely the difference, a shoggoth has this huge dataset about people with which it works at an acceleration of 20M times, and people do not have the same dataset on shoggots that they worked on at the same acceleration, in fact, they don’t even have 20M parallel people working on it, because people don’t have a dataset on shoggots at all. That is, it cannot be said about a shoggoth that it has a high intelligence, on the contrary, it is very low, but thanks to the enormous speed of work and the huge amount of cached information, it still has a very high, close to human, short-term optimized strength. In other words, a shoggoth has a lot of power, but it’s very inefficient, especially if we talk about the standard list of human, except for speaking, because it does everything through this extra prism. So it’s kind of like making a Go program speak a language by associating the language with board states and games won. Because of this superfluous superstructure, at very high power it will be able to mimic a wide range of human tasks, but it won’t do it to its full potential because it’s based on an inappropriate structure. So the efficiency in human tasks will be approximately the same as that of a person in mathematics tasks. That is, Yudkowsky is right, a shoggot is not an average of a bunch of parallel mental streams of people who switch between each other, these are cones of branches of probability trees diverging in both directions, and its different faces are not even faces’ masks, these are the faces of Jesus on a toast or a dog, human tendency to apothenia with finding human faces and facial expressions in completely alien processes.