> The bigger question is, what values do we - the collective we - attribute to a world and a life to be saved and will our AI adhere to such values?
I think to believe that we even know the answer to that question is high arrogance. To believe that we know all and should make the world conform to it is the height of hubris. The same sort seen in repeated failures of megalomaniacal central planning. We don't even know what we want ahead of time.
Not to mention that our solutions have all proven emergent based upon other properties rather than based upon some lofty principles. "Making Wheat Shorter" as a goal to prevent famines sounds like something straight out of a Jonathon Switft style satire but more or less sums up Norman Borlaug's high yield disease-resistant dwarf wheat. But that is what goddamned worked to save billions from starvation. Not going based upon assumptions of "oneness and harmony with the world" or whatever nonsense we are accused of lacking by do-nothings.
Almost as arrogant as believing in a "necessary immersion into and deep reverence for the world" or said lofty sentiments actually amount or or means anything. You get derision because you appeal to lofty sentiment which conveniently amounts to "do nothing but feel superior and look down upon others".
I think to believe that we even know the answer to that question is high arrogance. To believe that we know all and should make the world conform to it is the height of hubris. The same sort seen in repeated failures of megalomaniacal central planning. We don't even know what we want ahead of time.
Not to mention that our solutions have all proven emergent based upon other properties rather than based upon some lofty principles. "Making Wheat Shorter" as a goal to prevent famines sounds like something straight out of a Jonathon Switft style satire but more or less sums up Norman Borlaug's high yield disease-resistant dwarf wheat. But that is what goddamned worked to save billions from starvation. Not going based upon assumptions of "oneness and harmony with the world" or whatever nonsense we are accused of lacking by do-nothings.
Almost as arrogant as believing in a "necessary immersion into and deep reverence for the world" or said lofty sentiments actually amount or or means anything. You get derision because you appeal to lofty sentiment which conveniently amounts to "do nothing but feel superior and look down upon others".