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Re:OK, it’s time to freak out about AI by pixl97 on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:53AM (#35193665)
It's OK, you simply lack imagination.

Ok course we keep humanizing these thoughts, while we're creating more capable digital aliens every day. Then one day we'll act all surprised for a few minutes when we've created super powered digital aliens that act nothing like we expect, because the only intelligence we see is our own.

Re:OK, it’s time to freak out about AI by vba616 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:22AM (#35216291)
>It's OK, you simply lack imagination.

"Imagine" is a word that has more than one sense. I can "imagine" a possibility whether or not I think its probability is > 0%. Saying "I can't imagine" can be a way of saying yeah, I think the probability is 0%.

But if I can state the probability, I must have some kind of model in my head, so in that sense I am "imagining" it.

"Imagine" that strategic bombing was invented, and then everybody just waited around without doing it until there was a bomb that could destroy an entire city - i.e. Trinity.

In one sense, sure, I/you/we can imagine it. But it seems to me that sort of thing would be unprecedented in all of human history, so in another sense it seems impossible - unimaginable - although in a softer way than a violation of physics or logic.

The last bit of my previous comment was about logical impossibility, by the way.