Re:The singularity is close?
by colinmhayes on Thursday March 31, 2022 @09:56PM
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I don’t think dualism necessarily means AGI is impossible for the reason you pointed out. But it would definitely mean it’s not inevitable, the non material part may be something that is somehow unique to people.
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It depends a bit on what we mean by AGI.
Even if dualism is true, and humans have something special, that doesn't mean that a paperclip optimizer is impossible. A paperclip optimizer would be very, very smart (in the sense of being able to solve problems and achieving its objective of turning the universe into paperclips), but would not have a consciousness.