The interviewer accused Eliezer of being religious-like. But if the universe is deterministically moving from state to state then it’s just like a computer, a machine that moves predictably from state to state. Therefore it’s not religious at all to believe anything in the world (including intelligence) could eventually be reproduced in a computer.
But of course the universe is not like a computer. Everything a computer does until the end of time is implied in it’s initial state, the nature of it’s CPU, and subsequent inputs. It can never deviate from that course. It can never choose like a human, therefore it can never model a human.
And it’s not possible to rationally argue that choice is an illusion because reason uses choice in it’s operations. If you use something in the process of arguing against it, you fall in to absurdity. e.g. your proof comes out something like: “I presumed P, pondered Q and R, chose R, reasoned thusly about R vs S, finally choosing S. Therefore choice isn’t really choosing.”
The interviewer accused Eliezer of being religious-like. But if the universe is deterministically moving from state to state then it’s just like a computer, a machine that moves predictably from state to state. Therefore it’s not religious at all to believe anything in the world (including intelligence) could eventually be reproduced in a computer.
But of course the universe is not like a computer. Everything a computer does until the end of time is implied in it’s initial state, the nature of it’s CPU, and subsequent inputs. It can never deviate from that course. It can never choose like a human, therefore it can never model a human.
And it’s not possible to rationally argue that choice is an illusion because reason uses choice in it’s operations. If you use something in the process of arguing against it, you fall in to absurdity. e.g. your proof comes out something like: “I presumed P, pondered Q and R, chose R, reasoned thusly about R vs S, finally choosing S. Therefore choice isn’t really choosing.”