Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai?

• communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Most people can’t identify a correct mathematical equation from an incorrect one

  this is irrelevant, we’re talking about something where nobody can tell the difference.

  What is “economically important labor”? Arguably the most economically important labor is giving birth, raising your children, and supporting your family. So would an AGI be some sort of inorganic uterus as well as a parent and a lover? Lol.

  it means a job. That’s obviously not a job and obviously not what is meant, an interesting strategy from one who just used “what most people mean when they say”

  That’s a pretty tall order, if AGI also has to do philosophy, politics, and science. All fields that require the capacity for rational deliberation and independent thought, btw.

  it just has to be at least as good as a human at manipulating the world to achieve its goals, I don’t know of any other definition of agi that factors in actually meaningful tasks

  an agi should be able to do almost any task a human can do at a computer. It doesn’t have to be conscious and I have no idea why or where consciousness factors into the equation.

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  • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    we’re talking about something where nobody can tell the difference, not where it’s difficult.

    You’re missing the point. The existence of black holes was predicted long before anyone had any idea how to identify them. For many years, it was impossible. Does that mean black holes don’t matter? That we shouldn’t have contemplated their existence?

    Seriously though, I’m out.

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    • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The existence of black holes has a functional purpose in physics, the existence of consciousness only has one to our subjective experience, and not one to our capabilities.

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      • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        if I’m wrong list a task that a conscious being can do that an unconscious one is unable to accomplish.

        These have been listed repeatedly: love, think, understand, contemplate, discover, aspire, lead, philosophize, etc.

        There are, in fact, very few interesting things that a non-thinking entity can do. It can make toast. It can do calculations. It can design highways. It can cure cancer. It can probably fold clothes. None of this shit is particularly exciting. Just more machines doing what they’re told. We want a machine that can tell us what to do, instead. That’s AGI. No such machine can exist, at least according to our current understanding of mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, and human cognition.

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  • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Economics is descriptive, not prescriptive. The whole concept of “a job” is completely made up and arbitrary.

    This has been fun, but I’m bored now.

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    • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A job is a task one human wants another to accomplish, it is not arbitrary at all.

      philosophy, politics, science are among the most important non-family-oriented “jobs” we humans do. They require consciousness.

      i don’t see why they do, a philosophical zombie could do it, why not an unconscious AI? alphaevolve is already making new science, I see no reason an unconscious being with the abilty to manipulate the world and verify couldn’t do these things.

      Plus, if a machine does what it’s told, then someone would be telling it what to do. That’s a job that a machine cannot do. But most of our jobs are already about telling machines what to do. If an AGI is not self-directed, it can’t tell other machines what to do, unless it is itself told what to do. But then someone is telling it what to do, which is “a job.”

      yes but you can give it large, vague goals like “empower humanity, do what we say and minimize harm.” And it will still do them. So what does it matter?

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      • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What the hell does “empower humanity” mean? When you tell it to reduce harm, how do you know it won’t undertake a course of eugenics? How do you know it won’t see fit that people like you, by virtue of your stupidity, are culled or sterilized?

        Why do you expect an unthinking, non-deliberative zombie process to know what you mean by “empower humanity”? There are facts about what is GOOD and what is BAD that can only be grasped through subjective experience.

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