This opinion is common on this forum, it puts you in what could be called the ‘pre-paradigmatic’ camp
Maybe it’s common now.
During the high rationalist era, early 2010s, there was supposed to be a theory of AGI based on rationality. The problem was that ideal rationality is uncomputable, so that approach would involve going against what is already known about computation, and therefore crankish. (And the claim that any AI is non ideally rational, whilst defensible for some values of non ideallyrational, is not useful, since there are many ways of being non-ideal).
I am not familiar with the specific rationalist theory of AGI developed in the high rationalist era of the early 2010s. I am not a rationalist, but I do like histories of ideas, so I am delighted to learn that such a thing as the high rationalist era of the early 2010s even exists.
If I were to learn more about the actual theory, I suspect that you and I would end up agreeing that the rationalist theory of AGI developed in the high rationalist era was crankish.
Maybe it’s common now.
During the high rationalist era, early 2010s, there was supposed to be a theory of AGI based on rationality. The problem was that ideal rationality is uncomputable, so that approach would involve going against what is already known about computation, and therefore crankish. (And the claim that any AI is non ideally rational, whilst defensible for some values of non ideallyrational, is not useful, since there are many ways of being non-ideal).
I am not familiar with the specific rationalist theory of AGI developed in the high rationalist era of the early 2010s. I am not a rationalist, but I do like histories of ideas, so I am delighted to learn that such a thing as the high rationalist era of the early 2010s even exists.
If I were to learn more about the actual theory, I suspect that you and I would end up agreeing that the rationalist theory of AGI developed in the high rationalist era was crankish.
Yes. I was trying to avoid the downvote demon by hinting quietly.
PS looks like he winged me.