Evolution is smarter than you. The notion that this is a stupid process, isn’t justified.
Our intuition is here misleading once again.But not only the evolution, some other processes as well, outsmart us mortals.
Lenin was quite certain that his central planning will be far better than a chaotic merchants-buyer-peasant negotiations on a million market places at once. He was wrong.
The calculation power of the whole biology is astounding one. Eventually we may prevail, but never underestimate your opponent. Especially not the Red Queen herself!
Could you qualify that statement? If I was given a full time job to find the best way to increase some bacterium’s fitness, I’m sure I could study the microbiology necessary and find at least some improvement well before evolution could. Yes, evolution created things that we don’t yet understand, but then again, she had a planet’s worth of processing power and 7 orders of magnitude more time to do it—and yet we can still see many obvious errors. Evolution has much more processing power than me, sure, but I wouldn’t say she is smarter than me. There’s nothing evolution created over all its history that humans weren’t able to overpower in an eyeblink of a time. Things like lack of foresight and inability to reuse knowledge or exchange it among species, mean that most of this processing power is squandered.
Well, we have a race with evolution in the field of antibiotics, don’t we? Evolution strikes back with antibiotic resistant bacteria. It is not that obvious that we will win. Probably we will, but that is not guaranteed.
It is a blind force, all right. It has no clear focus, all right. But still, it is an awesome power not to underestimate it.
And if something as stupid as evolution (almost) solved the alignment problem, it would suggest that it should be much easier for humans.
Evolution is smarter than you. The notion that this is a stupid process, isn’t justified.
Our intuition is here misleading once again.But not only the evolution, some other processes as well, outsmart us mortals.
Lenin was quite certain that his central planning will be far better than a chaotic merchants-buyer-peasant negotiations on a million market places at once. He was wrong.
The calculation power of the whole biology is astounding one. Eventually we may prevail, but never underestimate your opponent. Especially not the Red Queen herself!
Could you qualify that statement? If I was given a full time job to find the best way to increase some bacterium’s fitness, I’m sure I could study the microbiology necessary and find at least some improvement well before evolution could. Yes, evolution created things that we don’t yet understand, but then again, she had a planet’s worth of processing power and 7 orders of magnitude more time to do it—and yet we can still see many obvious errors. Evolution has much more processing power than me, sure, but I wouldn’t say she is smarter than me. There’s nothing evolution created over all its history that humans weren’t able to overpower in an eyeblink of a time. Things like lack of foresight and inability to reuse knowledge or exchange it among species, mean that most of this processing power is squandered.
Well, we have a race with evolution in the field of antibiotics, don’t we? Evolution strikes back with antibiotic resistant bacteria. It is not that obvious that we will win. Probably we will, but that is not guaranteed.
It is a blind force, all right. It has no clear focus, all right. But still, it is an awesome power not to underestimate it.
Can you make an AGI given only primordial soup?