https://overcast.fm/+Ic2hwsH2U/1:10:49 … #AI
“You could build a mind that thought that 51 was a prime number but otherwise had no defect of its intelligence – if you knew what you were doing” —@ESYudkowsky
Is it possible build a mind able to learn but incapable of correcting this error? (Why?)
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But why downfall "after the end of the Roman empire"? Isn't that a very arbitrary point to pick? It's not like religion had no influence before said fall? From that perspective, hasn't civilisation been only "falling" for as long as religion was around?
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I think that the Greek and Roman civilizations were not religious. Their gods and temples did not act as a source of sacred universal norms, and their governments were rational. Bad incentives led to a crash of Roman governance, so it was rebuilt using nonrational religion.
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I agree. Religions can instantiate criteria that disable the use of very fundamental ideas. I had a bad religious experience once, & months afterward, every time I considered fundamental theories, I had a fear based compulsion of checking whether god would doom me for the thought
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and making progress in understanding was very hard.
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