You’re making a giant number of implicit ill-founded assumptions here that must all be true
I don’t accept that I make or are required to make any of the assumptions that you declare that I make. Allow me to emphasize just how slight a convenience it has to be for an indifferent entity to exterminate humanity. Very, very slight.
I’ll bow out of this conversation. It isn’t worth having it in a hidden draft.
What ever. That is the problem with human language, simplest statements have a zillion possible unfounded assumptions that are not even well defined nor is the maker of statement even aware of them (or would admit making them, because he didn’t, because he just manipulated symbols).
Take “i think therefore i am”. innocent phrase, something that entirely boxed in blind symbolic ai should be able to think, right? No. Wrong. The “I” is only a meaningful symbol when there’s non-i to separate from i, the “think” when you can do something other than thinking, that you need to separate from thought, via symbol ‘think’; therefore implies the statements where it does not follow, and I am refers to the notion that non-i might exist without I existing. Yet if you say something like this, are you ‘making’ those assumptions? You can say no—they come in pre-made, and aren’t being processed.
I don’t accept that I make or are required to make any of the assumptions that you declare that I make. Allow me to emphasize just how slight a convenience it has to be for an indifferent entity to exterminate humanity. Very, very slight.
I’ll bow out of this conversation. It isn’t worth having it in a hidden draft.
What ever. That is the problem with human language, simplest statements have a zillion possible unfounded assumptions that are not even well defined nor is the maker of statement even aware of them (or would admit making them, because he didn’t, because he just manipulated symbols).
Take “i think therefore i am”. innocent phrase, something that entirely boxed in blind symbolic ai should be able to think, right? No. Wrong. The “I” is only a meaningful symbol when there’s non-i to separate from i, the “think” when you can do something other than thinking, that you need to separate from thought, via symbol ‘think’; therefore implies the statements where it does not follow, and I am refers to the notion that non-i might exist without I existing. Yet if you say something like this, are you ‘making’ those assumptions? You can say no—they come in pre-made, and aren’t being processed.