…powers such as precognition (knowledge of the future), telepathy or psychokinesis…
Sounds like a description of magic to me. They could have written it differently if they’d wanted to evoke the impression of super-advanced technologies.
Yes, I wasn’t clear enough. By “this site” I mean Lesswrong, not the NWT.
On LW (and on any somehow related site), NWT could not get the information that an AI might become magical. Only very advanced or very very very advanced.
For an outside observer it may be hard to tell where is the difference, but it always is and it always will be a fundamental difference.
The message “there is no magic” is the loudest message here on Lesswrong, as I see it.
The second one “AI may LOOK LIKE a magic” is … well, subordinate to the first one.
And it is the NWT who doesn’t understand this hierarchy.
Sounds like a description of magic to me. They could have written it differently if they’d wanted to evoke the impression of super-advanced technologies.
I somehow doubt that meant super-advanced technology—remember, this AI is trapped in a box.
I changed it to “psychic powers”, since that seems more accurate—high intelligence leading to “psychic powers” is a well-established sci-fi trope.
Yes, I wasn’t clear enough. By “this site” I mean Lesswrong, not the NWT.
On LW (and on any somehow related site), NWT could not get the information that an AI might become magical. Only very advanced or very very very advanced.
For an outside observer it may be hard to tell where is the difference, but it always is and it always will be a fundamental difference.
The message “there is no magic” is the loudest message here on Lesswrong, as I see it.
The second one “AI may LOOK LIKE a magic” is … well, subordinate to the first one.
And it is the NWT who doesn’t understand this hierarchy.