Comment on vines of the animal kingdom
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 weeks agoNo, they both have intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to process information. A pocket calculator has intelligence. A domino computer has intelligence. Settlers of Catan has intelligence - the rules contain an algorithm for determining who wins.
What you’re doing is deifying intelligence. You’re making it into a bigger thing than it is. You’re setting “Intelligence” apart from normal everyday information processing that even an abacus can do. The problem with that practice is that now you have no word to describe the ability to process information.
ilost7489@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You do have a word to define that: the ability to process information. Defining intelligence in such a broad way makes the distinction practically meaningless. You cannot tell me with a straight face that you and I have the same intelligence as the phone in our pockets; there is a clear distinction between how we parse information and how a phone does.
I honestly don’t see what the main argument of all of this was anymore. If you were arguing that AI has intelligence and can think like us, and that we should treat it that way, then I guess we should emancipate every kind of predictive algorithm while we’re at it. Autocorrect has been oppressed for too long!
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Good thing drag didn’t say that. Drag said the phone in your pocket has intelligence. You added the part about it being the same intelligence as us. Don’t do that.
ilost7489@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I guess you are right in that it is a phrase rather than one word. The point that I was trying to say is that oversimplifying what defines intelligence makes the distinction useless. There is a use in defining the difference between a phone computing numbers and our ability to think and I probably should’ve explained it like that
On an unrelated note, I keep seeing you refer to someone called drag. Is this you but in the 3rd person? Are there more than one dragon rider?
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Drag uses person independent neopronouns. Drag’s pronoun is inflected and conjugated the same way in all grammatical persons.
And drag disagrees that there’s a singular distinction to be made between humans and worms. There’s a spectrum of difference. Every improvement is an incremental leap. We got here over a billion years of evolution. It didn’t happen all at once. Setting ourselves apart from the rest of nature disconnects us and damages our empathy. Human supremacy is the reason we eat meat. Drag is a vegan because drag values all intelligent lifeforms.
Also, did you know soy is capable of acting to defend itself? When aphids eat soy, it releases a chemical that smells delicious to ladybugs. The ladybugs come to check it out, and find a yummy aphid lunch. With the aphids eaten, the soy is safe. Nature is so cool. And you can call drag a hippie if you like.