Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat than Artificial Intelligence?

Re:Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat than Artificial Intellige... by xazo on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @11:08AM (#18543486)

A more informative title would be "Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat to Human Distinctiveness than AI?"

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Re:Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat than Artificial Intellige... by n4r9 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @11:38AM (#18543794)

The title was very misleading, especially since AI's "threat" usually means a paperclip maximiser or something. I ended up skimming through the whole article to try and figure out what was being threatened. Until the very end I assumed it was our ability to function, knowing how meaningless consciousness is.

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Re:Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat than Artificial Intellige... by bloke_zero on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @12:26PM (#18544373)

I think the threat implied would be that if all of our beliefs are essentially meaningless then nihilism might appear to be the logical outcome.

That is largely what I believe (about beliefs) - they are cute but meaningless.

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Re:Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat than Artificial Intellige... by hprotagonist on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @12:30PM (#18544421)

well that's cute... but meaningless :)

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