I have thought about this. I still don’t know if that obviates the concern about an advanced super-intelligence. Why would it not collaborate with the 4D spider wasps?
I’m not sure how useful it is to speculate about 4 dimensional spider wasps. Seems like the same type of reasoning that leads people to seriously debate about being in a simulation; the answer to that is “no experiment you can perform inside a simulation can prove that you are in one”. In my conception of “dimension”, you’re essentially stuck where you are and would be operating on literally zero evidence if you thought about 4 dimensional spider wasps. There’s no point wondering “I wonder whether the simulators skipped lunch today and are therefore particularly grumpy today”, because you’d be doing your rationality more harm than good by coming up with elaborate theories about concepts that aren’t concrete at all.
I don’t see how we can talk about ‘4 dimensional spider wasps’ in any productive way, much less wonder what side the 4 dimensional spider wasps would take in an alliance, or whether AI would want to help us in our fight against the 4 dimensional spider wasps.
If there’s something I’m not understanding or if you guys have a clear image of what a 4D spider wasp is and I don’t for some reason, please tell me. I’d be genuinely curious if ‘4D spider wasp’ was an actually useful concept.
That is a pretty good point, who’s to say there aren’t ‘predators’ of some sort in higher spatial or temporal dimensions?
Wouldn’t that obviate the concern about ‘AI’ though? Maybe they will be our best friends against the 4D spider wasps?
I have thought about this. I still don’t know if that obviates the concern about an advanced super-intelligence. Why would it not collaborate with the 4D spider wasps?
Maybe they will feel sympathy for their fellow 3+1 dimensional brethren.
I’m not sure how useful it is to speculate about 4 dimensional spider wasps. Seems like the same type of reasoning that leads people to seriously debate about being in a simulation; the answer to that is “no experiment you can perform inside a simulation can prove that you are in one”. In my conception of “dimension”, you’re essentially stuck where you are and would be operating on literally zero evidence if you thought about 4 dimensional spider wasps. There’s no point wondering “I wonder whether the simulators skipped lunch today and are therefore particularly grumpy today”, because you’d be doing your rationality more harm than good by coming up with elaborate theories about concepts that aren’t concrete at all.
I don’t see how we can talk about ‘4 dimensional spider wasps’ in any productive way, much less wonder what side the 4 dimensional spider wasps would take in an alliance, or whether AI would want to help us in our fight against the 4 dimensional spider wasps.
If there’s something I’m not understanding or if you guys have a clear image of what a 4D spider wasp is and I don’t for some reason, please tell me. I’d be genuinely curious if ‘4D spider wasp’ was an actually useful concept.