If, hypothetically, we were doing MI on minds, then I would predict that MI will pick some low hanging fruit and then hit walls where their methods will stop working, and it will be more difficult to develop new methods that work. The new methods that work will look more and more like reflecting on one’s own thinking, discovering new ways of understanding one’s own thinking, and then going and looking for something like that in the in-vitro mind. IDK how far that could go. But then this will completely grind to a halt when the IVM is coming up with concepts and ways of thinking that are novel to humanity. Some other approach would be needed to learn new ideas from a mind via MI.
However, another dealbreaker problem with current and current-trajectory MI is that it isn’t studying minds.
If, hypothetically, we were doing MI on minds, then I would predict that MI will pick some low hanging fruit and then hit walls where their methods will stop working, and it will be more difficult to develop new methods that work. The new methods that work will look more and more like reflecting on one’s own thinking, discovering new ways of understanding one’s own thinking, and then going and looking for something like that in the in-vitro mind. IDK how far that could go. But then this will completely grind to a halt when the IVM is coming up with concepts and ways of thinking that are novel to humanity. Some other approach would be needed to learn new ideas from a mind via MI.
However, another dealbreaker problem with current and current-trajectory MI is that it isn’t studying minds.