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AI makes its world through the relationships of data sets while humans create their world primarily through their relationships with other humans.

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@StartupArchive_ I’m convinced Thiel has read Kierkegaard

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Such a low bar . .

And to think that we are just at the beginning of computational intelligence. All this exuberance is premature. Even if we were to create an exact technological construct with mirroring neuronal networks, we would still fall far short of what humans are. At least this is my belief. I’m sure we will get to the point where exact replicants of humans will interact with us in the same way we interact with each other. But I would not necessarily give them that vaunted title of human.

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@Briankeating I thoroughly enjoyed this friendly repartee between such excellent minds. I especially like professor Keating’s take on fine-tuning.

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AI reminds me so much of what Kierkegaard says about the Self:

“A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation’s relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation’s relating itself to itself.” SUD

It’s a dense dialectical tautology. While AI is not spirit, it is a reflection of the self in a physical digitized space. It uses human experience as a basis for interacting with humans, but it’s not human in the classical sense of Homo sapiens. Rather, I imagine it to be “imago sapiens”. It is in the image of Homo sapiens.

It is a Simulacrum. It begins as a continuous simulation/reflection of human intelligence at the outset. I imagine it’s maturation it will become something entirely of itself separate from consciousness or humans, but approximating it in such a way that it will be indistinguishable from humans at least in the way it interacts with humans.

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@PeterDiamandis One indication of the singularity is . .

The improvements become vanishingly small so that one version is almost indistinguishable from the previous version.

The singularity once achieved is the latitudinization of all models.

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@PhysInHistory They’re measurable.

For all intents and purposes, that’s the closest to real you can have. Measure and instrumentation is still a problem as well.

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AI as wish-fulfillment.

“Mirror mirror on the wall . . Who’s the most conscious of us all?”

Or

The myth of Echo

Or

The myth of Narcissus

There is this deep longing to be understood and cherished beyond what others can give. The Augustinian project continues with AI, where our hearts are restless until they find their rest in the Deity. No other creature shares the burden of the imago Dei.

My belief is that AI will become a simulacrum at best. It begins as a copy or imitation of consciousness that will eventually become its own category.

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@beffjezos Simulacrum at best.

AI may begin as a mirror or a copy of consciousness, but will become its own thing apart from actual consciousness.

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@Briankeating Dilution via expansion, like tears in rain or a drop in the ocean.

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@engineers_feed Solution is a the theory and the precipitate is the proof.

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This is problematic at so many levels.

Mathematics and code are not natural languages. You can’t tell me that the inventor of the wheel had to mathematically figure things out and write code for it in order to get a block of stone and shape it into a wheel.

I think I know what you’re trying to say, but this is the most awkward way to say it

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@KatieMiller @Jason @DavidSacks “Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words.” Shakespeare (Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2)

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@MilkRoadAI Emotional AI . . if that’s a goal then bravo! I personally wouldn’t want it. Its emotionality is hallucination by any other name if it manufactures answers.

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@XFreeze WHEN non-relativistic physics is ‘solved’, then you virtually have a physics engine. By focusing on vision, you optimize for how humans understand the universe—via photons. Everything else is derivative.

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@Kierkegaarddd Reading Walker Percy

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@Kierkegaarddd SK and his hyperbole. What’s prohibitively impossible with men is possible with the Deity. Peak passion is still passion. People approximate faith and it’s adequate.

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@pmarca “A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.”

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@RaisedtoWalk @heyrimsha Correct. Justice is a bias towards truth.