The one thing I disagree with: morality is not an automatic implication of being a mind. It only applies when agents identify with purposes of other agents, so others become moral subjects. And ethics are not presupposable and then challenged by AI, ethics are a derived solution.
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It was this article that led me to David Deutsch's book "The Beginning of Infinity". If you ever encounter one you can jump straight to Chapter 6 & 7 which are kind of continuation of the article. Here are the summaries:pic.twitter.com/jlxTgxth50
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"Because error correction is essential in processes of potentially unlimited length, the jump to universality only ever happens in digital systems"—David Deutsch
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I've heard people from the industry just about the opposite about that essay. I quite liked it myself when I read it years ago. (Save from some caveats, I believe I do had..)
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Are there any approaches today that get at this: “…a new epistemological theory that explains how brains create explanatory knowledge and hence defines, in principle, without ever running them as programs, which algorithms possess that functionality and which do not.”?
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I will resume reading once I cool off from Ada being referred to as Babbage's assistant rather than his collaborator given what we know about their work.
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I think that David Deutsch later revised his perspective a little.
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