No, the only really alien intelligence on this planet is natural selection, of which I have already spoken… for exactly this reason, that it gives you true experience of the Alien. Evolution knows no joy and no anger, and it has no facial expressions; yet it is nonetheless capable of creating complex machinery and complex strategies. It does not work like you do.
If you want a real alien to gawk at, look at the other Powerful Optimization Process.
I recall comments made by Kasparov after his defeat by Deep Blue. Something along the lines of having confronted another order of intelligence.
I suspect that looking at another Powerful Optimization Process is useful for getting a better sense of the distance, but is possibly going too far, somewhat like contemplating a light-year to get a sense of the distances involved in landing on Mars.
Another social intelligence is likely to have mechanisms for dealing with something like politics. (If anyone has ever lived with a dog and a parrot, one has a couple of points of comparison for a very slightly alien, and slightly more alien intelligence, though these are very close to us in comparison to evolution.)
I wonder if this implies that what Eliezer and most AI researchers are currently working with is of the order of alienness that evolution is?
I recall comments made by Kasparov after his defeat by Deep Blue. Something along the lines of having confronted another order of intelligence.
I suspect that looking at another Powerful Optimization Process is useful for getting a better sense of the distance, but is possibly going too far, somewhat like contemplating a light-year to get a sense of the distances involved in landing on Mars.
Another social intelligence is likely to have mechanisms for dealing with something like politics. (If anyone has ever lived with a dog and a parrot, one has a couple of points of comparison for a very slightly alien, and slightly more alien intelligence, though these are very close to us in comparison to evolution.)
I wonder if this implies that what Eliezer and most AI researchers are currently working with is of the order of alienness that evolution is?