tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post3316289368603223254..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Sanewashing Lamewashing BlamewashingDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-2360007683003292922012-06-20T10:06:30.417-07:002012-06-20T10:06:30.417-07:00> Indeed, it is actually rather obfuscating to ...> Indeed, it is actually rather obfuscating to declare the<br />> objects of such speculation a "they" or "it" in the first place,<br />> when nobody really knows of what this object would actually consist.<br /><br />Here's a typical example of reifying the imaginary, and<br />then holding it up as if it were a concrete reality:<br /><br />"Years ago when I was on a panel with Jaron Lanier, he had offered<br />some elaborate argument that no machine could be intelligent, because<br />it was just a machine and to call it 'intelligent' was therefore bad<br />poetry, or something along those lines. Fed up, I finally snapped:<br />'Do you mean to say that if I write a computer program and that computer<br />program rewrites itself and rewrites itself and builds its own<br />nanotechnology and zips off to Alpha Centauri and builds its own<br />Dyson Sphere, that computer program is not **intelligent**?'"<br /><br />-- Eliezer Yudkowsky<br /><br />http://lesswrong.com/lw/vb/efficient_crossdomain_optimization/<br /><br />(via<br />http://facingthesingularity.com/2011/playing-taboo-with-intelligence/ )jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com