Re:The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
by lelanthran on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:35PM
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> Can you convince the chicken to do anything you wish it to, using only words?
Well if a chicken is incapable of being convinced[1]of arbitrary things, why would it matter whether OP can convince it? It's like asking "Can you convince this brick that the world is flat, using only words?"
[1] No doubt that chickens are trainable using conditioning, but I'd argue that you cannot train a chicken to do anything that it is physically capable of doing, you can only train it to run towards you or run from you. Source - me, family raised chickens when I was growing up.
Well if a chicken is incapable of being convinced[1]of arbitrary things, why would it matter whether OP can convince it? It's like asking "Can you convince this brick that the world is flat, using only words?"
[1] No doubt that chickens are trainable using conditioning, but I'd argue that you cannot train a chicken to do anything that it is physically capable of doing, you can only train it to run towards you or run from you. Source - me, family raised chickens when I was growing up.