At 01:45 PM 6/4/2007, John wrote:
I'm going to take a dim/skeptical view of the true potency of
advanced AI here.
If a hypothetical advanced AI comes up with, say, a design for a
working, practical, economical, enviromentally friendly power
source, will it really get anywhere? Or if it says one day that
the "War on Drugs" in the US ought to be abandoned, and drugs
decriminalized, and presents a clear and well-reasoned case, will
that idea go anywhere?
It is quite difficult to conjecture about AI by using old world
scenarios. If an AI or AGI designs the architecture for producing a
world in which "works" (to use an art term); then of course STEEP+
areas will change. Again, it is not plausible to think about the
future on a single track. It is like putting a child in a dark room
with no sense awareness and tell it to envision the future.
We already have intelligent *human beings* whose well-reasoned
ideas get no traction in society at large. What makes you think
that an AI is going to fare any better?
Intelligence cannot go anywhere while sequestered in a unintelligent system.
On the other hand, if the AI is put to work on politically neutral
tasks like solving grand-challenge math problems or formulating
cheaper allergy pills then I guess that fits into a safe enough box.
Sure. This is a task.
If the AI isn't plugged into politics I don't see it making any
change to human civilization regardless of how smart it might be.
Politics is simply a politically correct way of saying "I'm okay,
you're not." Without preconceived notions of what is right and
without emotional attachment to authority and power. If politics is
"social relations involving authority or power" than it is one power
over another. Politics would have to change its meaning and directive.
Natasha
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