But the possibility of anthropomorphic design shouldn’t lead us to reductively misread a tech evolution anthropomorphically (let alone anthropocentrically). We call it pottery, not container-statues, because molding clay ain’t about us. It’s about the properties of clay.
-
-
The tedious anthropocentric lens (technically the aspie-hedgehog-rationalist projective lens) stifles other creative perspectives because of the appeal of angels-on-a-pinhead bs thought experiments like simulationism. Heat engines, swarms, black holes, fluid flows...
Show this thread -
Most AI watchers recognize that the economy and complex bureaucratic orgs are also AIs in the same ontological sense as the silicon based ones, but we don’t see the same moral panic there. When in fact both have even gone through paperclip-maximizer type phases. Why?
Show this thread -
I’ll tell you why. Because they don’t lend themselves as easily to anthropomorphic projection or be recognizably deployed into contests like beating humans at Go. Markets beat humans at Go via prizes. Bureaucracies do it via medals and training.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Hah! Naftali Tishby does (kinda sorta)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL07WEc2TRI …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.