Those are some interesting points. I think if someone truly promoted the idea of ‘flogiston’, even with the purest intentions, and as a consequence some people became deceived, I would consider it unintentional fooling, subconscious fooling, etc. So it definitely wouldn’t require intent.
After reflection, this also ties in with the issue of determining the competence of a superior intelligence. Where one can only identify the level above them, but not differentiate the level above the level above them, and so on.
So people who think they are near the top, and who believe there’s one level of people modestly greater than them in lets say ‘fooling ability’, may genuinely carry out their activities on that assumption. They effectively lead themselves into a trap if their estimation was wrong, if they are not actually near the very top.
I can understand why the simulation hypothesis and zoo hypothesis are so popular.
Those are some interesting points. I think if someone truly promoted the idea of ‘flogiston’, even with the purest intentions, and as a consequence some people became deceived, I would consider it unintentional fooling, subconscious fooling, etc. So it definitely wouldn’t require intent.
After reflection, this also ties in with the issue of determining the competence of a superior intelligence. Where one can only identify the level above them, but not differentiate the level above the level above them, and so on.
So people who think they are near the top, and who believe there’s one level of people modestly greater than them in lets say ‘fooling ability’, may genuinely carry out their activities on that assumption. They effectively lead themselves into a trap if their estimation was wrong, if they are not actually near the very top.
I can understand why the simulation hypothesis and zoo hypothesis are so popular.