10/ This is ultimately why the idea of the Singularity is so meaningless.
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11/ Going back to the nutrition analogy, it's like worrying a robot will beat all humans on cholesterol and lung capacity tests.
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12/ Buzzfeed 2020 headline: "Superhealthy Artificial Organism beats humans on cholesterol test on national TV"
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13/ So what's a better way to think about AI: Pinker was right that Moravec's Pardox is the most significant idea in AI so far. Here's why
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14/ Moravec's paradox revealed that early AI was more about anthropomorphism in problem choices by early pioneers than about cognition
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15/ Due credit to pioneers, but it is no accident that they pursued same metrics that a) inform IQ b) they aced to become academics
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16/ Current AI research is extremely exciting not just because it is higher powered but because it is getting away from anthopomorphic roots
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17/ Given this important break from our own conceits, ideas like the Singularity are not just scientifically ill-posed but reactionary
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18/ AI scaremongering is fundamentally an attempt to reimpose an anthropocentric narrative on work that is following a new narrative
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19/ Once you get rid of anthropocentric lenses, you realize that same mechanisms that worked with other technology risks will work here
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20/ As with airplanes or plastics or GMO or whatever, we'll learn from trial and error and figure it out
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And break-thorough discoveries will be accidental. (Of course you need to be doing trial and error to have the right kind of accidents)

