On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 9:11 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...Why is it so difficult to explain a phenomenon that we can't detect by > any physical instruments as something other than an illusion that increases > reproductive fitness? Whatever you think it is, you don't want to lose it > by dying. It's a feeling. We think we are rational, but that's only because > we make up reasons to explain our emotion driven actions. What else do you > need to know? > Occam's Chainsaw Massacre isn't the same as Occam's Razor, Matt. Natural phenomena exist that don't fit the mechanistic interpretation -- phenomena that are all too easily swept under the rug if doing so benefits structures that shape incentives: The ethics of meta-incentives is the meta-ethics of incentives. 1 in 5 people died over 30 years for this kind of thing after the "supersonic tsunami" caused by Gutenberg and we're well beyond that particular rhyme and heavily into the next stanza. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tc9fe35df94409188-M137c76ad888fc50e8e6974b9 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
