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Re:The AI Battle by ajafari1 on Monday July 18, 2022 @03:21PM (#32142338)
Nice! You were very close. With any exponential curve, it takes forever to get to point A, but once there, it's an immediate job to point Z.
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Re:The AI Battle by carapace on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:15AM (#32147466)
Cheers!

I'm going to try to work up a decent reply to your article, but it might take me a day or two.

Have you read Wendell Berry's "What are People For?" (that essay not the whole eponymous book)?

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The (open) secret at the heart of AI is that no AI can answer: "What is good?" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720621 )

AKA "Lucky for whom?" Teela Brown, fictional character in Larry Niven novels

Spoiler alert!

This link gives details of the character that are spoilers: https://larryniven.fandom.com/wiki/Teela_Brown

Unfortunately those details are the point I'm trying to make, and I'm a huge Niven fan so I'm not going to spoil Ringworld, but it ties in with the (ultimately metaphysical) question, "What is good?"

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