Or maybe we’re going to go extinct real soon now, because we lack ability to reflect like this, and consequently didn’t have couple thousands years to develop effective theory of mind for FAI before we make the hardware.
Having the ability to design and understand AI for a couple of thousand of years but somehow the inability to actually implement it sounds just about perfect. If only!
That is one idea for hacking friendliness: “Become the AI we would make if there were no existential threats and we didn’t have the hardware to implement it for a few thousand years, and flaming letters appeared on the moon saying ‘thou shall focus on designing Frienly AI’ ”
Havn’t bothered typing it out before because it falls in the reference class of trying to cheat on FAI, wich is always a bad idea, but it seemed relevant here.
Well, it wouldn’t be AI, it’d be simply I, as in “I think therefore I am.” but not stopping at this period.
edit: I mean, look at the SIAI; what do exactly they do right now which they couldn’t do in ancient Greece? If we could reflect on our mind better, and if our mind is physical in nature, then the idea of thinking machine would’ve been readily apparent, yet the microchips would still require very, very long time.
Would anyone downvoting me care to explain why they disagree? Look at Newton or Turing: what exactly did they do which couldn’t have been done in ancient Greece, and why is there no analogous counterexample for the SIAI?
Isn’t “why weren’t the Greeks working on Calculus” a far less silly question than “why weren’t the ancient Greeks working on AI”?
Having the ability to design and understand AI for a couple of thousand of years but somehow the inability to actually implement it sounds just about perfect. If only!
That is one idea for hacking friendliness: “Become the AI we would make if there were no existential threats and we didn’t have the hardware to implement it for a few thousand years, and flaming letters appeared on the moon saying ‘thou shall focus on designing Frienly AI’ ”
Havn’t bothered typing it out before because it falls in the reference class of trying to cheat on FAI, wich is always a bad idea, but it seemed relevant here.
Well, it wouldn’t be AI, it’d be simply I, as in “I think therefore I am.” but not stopping at this period.
edit: I mean, look at the SIAI; what do exactly they do right now which they couldn’t do in ancient Greece? If we could reflect on our mind better, and if our mind is physical in nature, then the idea of thinking machine would’ve been readily apparent, yet the microchips would still require very, very long time.
By this logic we’d have discovered all there is to know about math (including computer science) by Roman times at the latest.
Would anyone downvoting me care to explain why they disagree? Look at Newton or Turing: what exactly did they do which couldn’t have been done in ancient Greece, and why is there no analogous counterexample for the SIAI?
Isn’t “why weren’t the Greeks working on Calculus” a far less silly question than “why weren’t the ancient Greeks working on AI”?