>Maybe—I can see how emotions may prevent human from accepting that humans are not special.
Fully agree here. I definitely have this issue as well!
Like we want to imagine we are so special in our power and intelligence that we can emulate them at what they are good at. We really cannot. Computers are already unfathomably more intelligent in the domain of precise calculation of crystallized information which they operate in. We also imagine we can program computers do anything we want.
Which again, computers will often do what their internal logic causes them to do, not what we program them to do, and they will always be like that, as that is how a computer operates.
So there is no hope to ever get to that level. I kind of want to speed up my computational speed sometimes, but I have trouble even getting the accuracy right, like calculating 3-digit number effortlessly. For a computer that is just a silly joke in terms of difficulty of calculation.
>If you need to generalize it to make your point you can imagine your computer but with infinite memory and arbitrary fast execution speed. It can do literally everything a human can.
Huh? I don’t think it could walk, as it does not have legs. I am not being silly here, I think you mean in terms of some abstract computational capability, but that is not what you said.
Again in a physical sense it is also not true. A computer is made of silicon so it cannot send information between neurons.
So I am not even sure in which sense it could be true. I think you mean in terms of precise calculations of crystallized information. I guess then you have very good point, as I already talked about above.
But then, the computer cannot do this: 💻💡
As THIS💡 is the light produced by the screen you are seeing when reading this, not a computation. It is not produced by the computer either, but by the screen the computer is connected to.
>Maybe—I can see how emotions may prevent human from accepting that humans are not special.
Fully agree here. I definitely have this issue as well!
Like we want to imagine we are so special in our power and intelligence that we can emulate them at what they are good at. We really cannot. Computers are already unfathomably more intelligent in the domain of precise calculation of crystallized information which they operate in. We also imagine we can program computers do anything we want.
Which again, computers will often do what their internal logic causes them to do, not what we program them to do, and they will always be like that, as that is how a computer operates.
So there is no hope to ever get to that level. I kind of want to speed up my computational speed sometimes, but I have trouble even getting the accuracy right, like calculating 3-digit number effortlessly. For a computer that is just a silly joke in terms of difficulty of calculation.
>If you need to generalize it to make your point you can imagine your computer but with infinite memory and arbitrary fast execution speed. It can do literally everything a human can.
Huh? I don’t think it could walk, as it does not have legs. I am not being silly here, I think you mean in terms of some abstract computational capability, but that is not what you said.
Again in a physical sense it is also not true. A computer is made of silicon so it cannot send information between neurons.
So I am not even sure in which sense it could be true. I think you mean in terms of precise calculations of crystallized information. I guess then you have very good point, as I already talked about above.
But then, the computer cannot do this: 💻💡
As THIS💡 is the light produced by the screen you are seeing when reading this, not a computation. It is not produced by the computer either, but by the screen the computer is connected to.
I assumed it can make legs and neurons instantly using photons radiating from its chip.