“It seems a bit like complaining that microeconomics breaks down at the cellular level. Uh huh, but that’s not the level at which microeconomics is intended to act as an explanatory framework.”
All the issues of how future AIs will actually perform in the real world depend on how far they diverge from utility maximizers. If they don’t you’ll get paper clippers, if they do they’ll be more error prone human like and less likely to hard take off (due to error prone-ness).
Your comment struck me, as someone interested in the nuts and bolts of AI and also the future of the world, as someone saying to a bunch of quantum physicists, “Newtonian Dynamics is a really powerful framework”. Which it is, but not a useful statement to make to a few quantum physicists. As most people, at the moment, are interested in prediction of divergence from utility maximizing and creation of AI, your statement was also not so helpful to the general discussion of intelligent agents, IMO.
“It seems a bit like complaining that microeconomics breaks down at the cellular level. Uh huh, but that’s not the level at which microeconomics is intended to act as an explanatory framework.”
All the issues of how future AIs will actually perform in the real world depend on how far they diverge from utility maximizers. If they don’t you’ll get paper clippers, if they do they’ll be more error prone human like and less likely to hard take off (due to error prone-ness).
Your comment struck me, as someone interested in the nuts and bolts of AI and also the future of the world, as someone saying to a bunch of quantum physicists, “Newtonian Dynamics is a really powerful framework”. Which it is, but not a useful statement to make to a few quantum physicists. As most people, at the moment, are interested in prediction of divergence from utility maximizing and creation of AI, your statement was also not so helpful to the general discussion of intelligent agents, IMO.