Why does that mean AGI can’t exist? (asking genuinely, not confrontationally)
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Much of what makes us intelligent in the human niche are specialized insights into the human niche.
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I will argue instead that AGI can only be grown in the human niche. It can't be programmed.
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AGI is the persistence of a technoscientific myth of contact with the superhuman at the heart of a secular enterprise; an allegory of faith in a disenchanted universe.
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Is it simply the scientific study of general intelligence by using simulation.
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There is no general intelligence
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What's your definition of GI? Humans are not general intelligences?
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I don't think such an arbitrary definition is useful since it would lack specificity and reduce phenotypic plasticity to a set of supposedly human-exclusive measurable objectives. The boundaries of human beings are blurry. If you want to study a brittle abstraction go on with GI.
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The irony is that being surrounded by so many intelligences: bees, whales, chimpanzees, DNA molecules, computers, beetles, slime mold and even the earth as a gaian ecosystem, we still feel the necessity to recreate the strangeness that we miss in a computational abstraction.
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It seems to me the failure to recognize ourselves fuels our thirst for confirmation from trully 'general' superhuman intelligences. Thus, AGI stems from a failed concept of the human, which under a biological reading includes the inhuman since we are not only made of human cells.
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I don't disagree that the blindspot of current AGI work is its ignorance of biological processes.