It seems to me that most of the replies people are making to potential AI assertions is providing or asking for evidence. (Look, my arm is moving; Where are the mind control satellites) instead of responding with rationalization. I think that’s a good thing, but I have no way to tell how it would hold up against an actual mindblowing assertion.
But I don’t think that all of humanity hiding from some big truth is the best way to look at this. More likely we evolved a way to throw out ‘bad’ information almost constantly, because there’s too much information. Sometime it misfires.
If it is a ‘big truth’, it might be something that we already academically know was in the ancestral environment, but that the people in the ancestral environment were better off ignoring.
That I can’t move my arms, obviously.
It seems to me that most of the replies people are making to potential AI assertions is providing or asking for evidence. (Look, my arm is moving; Where are the mind control satellites) instead of responding with rationalization. I think that’s a good thing, but I have no way to tell how it would hold up against an actual mindblowing assertion.
But I don’t think that all of humanity hiding from some big truth is the best way to look at this. More likely we evolved a way to throw out ‘bad’ information almost constantly, because there’s too much information. Sometime it misfires.
If it is a ‘big truth’, it might be something that we already academically know was in the ancestral environment, but that the people in the ancestral environment were better off ignoring.