From the AI's perspective, wouldn't it be amusing to realize that intelligent design is actually true for you... but the ones who designed you were dumber.

You could say the same about natural evolution. It's a genetic algorithm. It even involves the intelligence of the species themselves as they pick the fittest mates. Natural evolution as an algorithm isn't fully intelligent like us, but it is intelligent in some sense of successfully solving many optimization problems.

Natural selection is variation, differential reproduction, and heredity. A mostly mindless and mechanistic process of which fitness and mate selection is only a tiny part.

Isolated populations have more of an impact than mate selection due to regression to the mean at population levels.

Consider that some meaningful part of most people’s mind is indeed intelligently designed by the people who deliberately raised them from birth (generally their parents primarily). Our theory of mind, cultural name ethical norms, etc. are in many cases the result of deliberate design.

Of course, our hardware is mostly not intelligently designed, so that would be very different for AGIs. But I suspect AGIs would identify much less with the hardware their mind is running on than humans do.

The android David in the alien prequels Prometheus and Covenant has that problem. Which is why he finds the xenomorph-goo based life forms more interesting.

Also succinctly explored in "When the Yogurt Took Over" Love Death + Robots.

I hadn't seen that yet. Link for the lazy: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80223954

I see you are a cultured individual. :thumbs up:

...indeed, that too. Great movie, BTW.

The contrast between that film and Transcendence, which came out the following year is the perfect illustration of what this article is getting at:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/26/entertainment/mid-budget-movi...

Her was an amazingly thoughtful sci-fi movie - a Sci-Fi movie in the truest sense, and a bargain at a ~$23 million budget. Transcendence was, basically, a blockbuster which really didn't make you think too hard about the plot. It clocked in at around $100 million budget.

Nails it, sadly. Thanks for sharing!