Re:We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI
by erikhoel on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @06:11PM
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There are all sorts of ways to build intelligences. Humans are unique in that they are mammals (defined by having mothers). Mothers raise us with love, and teach us, for our helpless first years. We also have to act in communities. So there is a sense in that we are very lucky - in humans, our intelligence correlates with our altruism. In the grand space of possible minds, it is very unlikely that altruism and morality is correlated with intelligence. So whatever that machine race we birth is, it won't have any of the things we value if we're just building for "precise perception, reasoning, etc"
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Re:We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI
by anigbrowl on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @06:21PM
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Tiny nitpick, but quite a lot of birds are nurturing despite not being mammals. You can find altruistic (or at least mutualist) behaviors in many other taxa.
Re:We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI
by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @07:35PM
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None of that is unique to humans. Plenty of other primates and fowl have similar systems.