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humanity isn't even a little prepared for AI. we're krill unable to comprehend the whale shaped shadow behind us. caterpillar about to get completely dissolved in a cocoon. the ocean about to evolve cyanobacteria. we're all about to become either dead or unrecognizable.

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I see software that basically denoises datasets into what we humans pass as reasonably coherent patterns due to their familiarity to patterns we trained it on. So what manifestation of ai in your opinion is so godlike currently?

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We're fundamentally the same thing as AI, except it takes 18 years to roll the dice on getting another one of us, and we have almost no self modification capacity

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We’re subjects who experience the world and our internal states. AI isn’t a subject, doesn’t experience anything, and is just objective machine processing. Doesn’t that make us fundamentally different from AI?

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I don't think internal states is really the right question here

4:23 PM · Jan 29, 2023

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They’re not relevant to whether AI can fulfil a lot of uses we might have for it, but they seem pretty relevant to some ethical questions we could ask, and also to whether it’s fundamentally the same as us

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