Build a seed AI seems like something that would translate into a religious proposal to me. Discover God perhaps? Might it work better if proposed by someone who didn’t understand the implications of AGI? Would discussion of MNT translate ad the suggestion of miniaturizing Hiero’s engine and the Antikythera mechanism, or scaling them up?
The rules of this game really don’t seem clear enough. We need to get feedback from Archimedes on what he’s hearing.
Personally, I strongly suspect that when it comes to ethical and political ideas the Ancient Greeks will understand us fairly well without much need for metaphorical translation, so long as we keep the discussion abstract. Women’s suffrage = wise dictator? For people who’s ancestors were inventing democracies of a sort and writing Lysistrata centuries earlier? Make the machine reversible and if you suggest women’s suffrage and he responds about Hiero II, you will hear a sensible to modern ears argument for moving to Singapore.
Build a seed AI seems like something that would translate into a religious proposal to me. Discover God perhaps? Might it work better if proposed by someone who didn’t understand the implications of AGI? Would discussion of MNT translate ad the suggestion of miniaturizing Hiero’s engine and the Antikythera mechanism, or scaling them up? The rules of this game really don’t seem clear enough. We need to get feedback from Archimedes on what he’s hearing. Personally, I strongly suspect that when it comes to ethical and political ideas the Ancient Greeks will understand us fairly well without much need for metaphorical translation, so long as we keep the discussion abstract. Women’s suffrage = wise dictator? For people who’s ancestors were inventing democracies of a sort and writing Lysistrata centuries earlier? Make the machine reversible and if you suggest women’s suffrage and he responds about Hiero II, you will hear a sensible to modern ears argument for moving to Singapore.