Re:Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode's code quality
by jpttsn on Saturday December 17, 2022 @04:36AM
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That's intriguing. I think I follow the reasoning but the conclusion is obviously "motivated".
So why is it "all pointless" if you all aren't conscious? Wouldn't life be just as enjoyable?
Not that it by definition makes any difference.
Re:Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode's code quality
by mannykannot on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:39AM
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I suspect Hinkley was just rejecting, as unhelpful, the deep skepticism of arguments based on pointing out that we cannot prove that anyone else has an inner, subjective mental life like ours.
If that's Hinkley's point, I agree; it seems tendentious to use that position in the process of arguing for or against specific claims about what the mind either is or could never be - but, by the same token, I don't take that 'skepticism of skepticism' as grounds for categorically rejecting ideas like the simulation hypothesis.
In that case this is all probably pointless and I should just die rather than play the game. So by continuing to live I chose the assumption that the rest of you live, or that at least we will all continue to pretend that is so. Any state in between those two options is something I’ll only know if someone turns the thing off, but doesn’t turn me off at the same time, which is a huge presumption. So fuck it, you’re all sentient.