Terren:One of the basic threads of scientific progress is the ceaseless
denigration of the idea that there is something special about humans
Not quite so. There is a great deal of exceptionalism in science - hence
"evolutionary psychology" actually only deals with human evolution. If there
were a true all-species evolutionary psychology, that really did look at the
evolution of the mind through all species, you wouldn't get what will come
to be seen as the mechanistic absurdity of trying to create an AGI starting
at human level. To twist a favourite analogy of AGI-ers, that's like trying
to start mechanical invention at the airplane stage, and jump the billions
of steps from rock tools and wheels on - or trying to invent a computer
before electricity has been discovered.
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