I can’t tell if your misinterpreting him or if he real meant something that stupid. The problem with “doing the impossible” is that it amounts to an injunction to use all available and potentially available resources to address the problem. Of course, its impossible to do this for every problem.
Of course, its impossible to do this for every problem.
I don’t think anyone implied “every problem”. Only the one you think is really worth the trouble. Like FAI for Eliezer (or the AI-box toy example), or the NSA spying for Snowden. The risk, of course, is that the problem might be too hard and you fail, after potentially wasting a lot of resources, including your life.
Because it might seem to you that you cannot change it, but if you have Eliezer’s do the impossible attitude, then maybe you can.
I can’t tell if your misinterpreting him or if he real meant something that stupid. The problem with “doing the impossible” is that it amounts to an injunction to use all available and potentially available resources to address the problem. Of course, its impossible to do this for every problem.
I don’t think anyone implied “every problem”. Only the one you think is really worth the trouble. Like FAI for Eliezer (or the AI-box toy example), or the NSA spying for Snowden. The risk, of course, is that the problem might be too hard and you fail, after potentially wasting a lot of resources, including your life.