PS: I use "singularity" in its vernacular, not formal meaning since as Matt has quite adequately pointed out, that word doesn't really belong physics.
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 1:21 PM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 12:32 PM Stanley Nilsen <senil...@ghvalley.net> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 2/22/20 1:22 AM, WriterOfMinds wrote: >> >> ... >> I recommend looking up the "orthogonality thesis" and doing some >> reading thereon. Morality, altruism, "human values," etc. are distinct >> from intellectual capacity, and must be *intentionally *incorporated >> into AGI if you want a complete, healthy artificial personality. >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >> I don't think the orthogonality thesis is relevant. It talks about any >> combination of goals and intelligence which is not what the "General" part >> of AGI is about. >> > > Be careful about "generality". According to what might be thought of as > the Cartesian paradigm of "generality", there is a very clear division > between subject and object, hence AIXI is it and the orthogonality thesis > is a consequence of unifying sequential decision theory with Solomonoff > induction -- but leaving SDT's utility function open. > > But even AIXI's author has written a paper titled "A Complete Theory of > Everything Will Be Subjective <https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.5434>". > > My own take on this is that the orthogonality thesis is wrong, but only > once we dispense with the mechanistic view of spacetime implied by the > Cartesian divide. Dispensing with that is beyond the capacity of those of > the tech-singularity and, I strongly suspect, beyond any mechanistic > implementation of AI (ie: AI's not incorporating _some_ interpretation of > QM's uncertainty -- although I'm not prepared to say which). Hell, it's > beyond the capacity of the vast majority of people nowadays as the vast > majority are de facto of the tech-singularity. > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tc67faac3048278cf-M4a8ebd9e108a9314991ab3fa Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
