Re:The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the p...
by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:21AM
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> Sure, if you ask a person, they'll weave a heartfelt story, etc. but the truth is in what they do, not in what they say ... and the majority of us do nothing or worse.
I'd say conclusion is the opposite - there's little "free will", people generally are slaves to the incentive structures they live in. People follow incentives so predictably that at scale there's little sense in talking about individuals - it's exactly corporations, governments and markets. Behaviour of system as a whole dominates over behaviour of individual components.
I'd say conclusion is the opposite - there's little "free will", people generally are slaves to the incentive structures they live in. People follow incentives so predictably that at scale there's little sense in talking about individuals - it's exactly corporations, governments and markets. Behaviour of system as a whole dominates over behaviour of individual components.