Good work on trying to map the situation. The hype around AGI feels like watching kids in a playground impress each other that they can make their calculators actually talk back. If it seems it does one day, it will be either a Wizard of Oz situation, a fakeout of complex tech, or we invited paraphysical persons into the mix, none of which are a good idea. I'm intrigued at how you pointed out the issue of determinism and goblins as we continue to shrink, and quantum interference. The same way that we put goggle eyes on a pencil and humanize it, we're also going full pareidolia on prompt responses, because we have a desperate belief that it is the only way to survive 'this body of death'. AI is a great tool, but humans are playing 5D chess in any given moment with multiple categories of engagement, and AI is a superfast spreadsheet. Keep this series going :) I'm interested in your thoughts :)
Thank you! Yes, the motivational aspect is something I wanted to touch on eventually. Probably starting earnestly in the third article. People are very familiar with the idea of a roboapocolypse--especially in America, it seems--but I think people often underestimate how... "salvation" oriented this research can get. At the very least, it becomes fairly clear how much Western *theology* has shaped our ideas of what computers "could be," when you compare our fictional projections to those in Asian storytelling.
Good work on trying to map the situation. The hype around AGI feels like watching kids in a playground impress each other that they can make their calculators actually talk back. If it seems it does one day, it will be either a Wizard of Oz situation, a fakeout of complex tech, or we invited paraphysical persons into the mix, none of which are a good idea. I'm intrigued at how you pointed out the issue of determinism and goblins as we continue to shrink, and quantum interference. The same way that we put goggle eyes on a pencil and humanize it, we're also going full pareidolia on prompt responses, because we have a desperate belief that it is the only way to survive 'this body of death'. AI is a great tool, but humans are playing 5D chess in any given moment with multiple categories of engagement, and AI is a superfast spreadsheet. Keep this series going :) I'm interested in your thoughts :)
Thank you! Yes, the motivational aspect is something I wanted to touch on eventually. Probably starting earnestly in the third article. People are very familiar with the idea of a roboapocolypse--especially in America, it seems--but I think people often underestimate how... "salvation" oriented this research can get. At the very least, it becomes fairly clear how much Western *theology* has shaped our ideas of what computers "could be," when you compare our fictional projections to those in Asian storytelling.