I didn’t notice the part in parentheses at all until just now—added in edit? The edit really doesn’t agree with the original question to me.
If you took alien children and raised them as earthlings you’d get mostly earthlings in alien bodies—given some assumptions they had roughly similar sized brains and reasonably parallel evolution. Something like this has happened historically—when uncontacted tribal children are raised in a distant advanced civ for example. Western culture—WIERD—has so pervasively colonized and conquered much of the memetic landscape that we have forgotten how diverse human mindspace can be (in some sense it could be WIERD that was the alien invasion ).
Also more locally on earth: japanese culture is somewhat alien compared to western english/american culture. I expect actual alien culture to be more alien.
I don’t necessarily agree—as I don’t consider either to be very alien. Minds are software memetic constructs so you are just comparing human software running on GPUs vs human software running on alien brains. How different that is and which is more different than human software running on ape brains now depends on many cumbersome details.
I didn’t notice the part in parentheses at all until just now—added in edit? The edit really doesn’t agree with the original question to me.
If you took alien children and raised them as earthlings you’d get mostly earthlings in alien bodies—given some assumptions they had roughly similar sized brains and reasonably parallel evolution. Something like this has happened historically—when uncontacted tribal children are raised in a distant advanced civ for example. Western culture—WIERD—has so pervasively colonized and conquered much of the memetic landscape that we have forgotten how diverse human mindspace can be (in some sense it could be WIERD that was the alien invasion ).
Also more locally on earth: japanese culture is somewhat alien compared to western english/american culture. I expect actual alien culture to be more alien.
I’m pretty sure I didn’t edit it, I think that was there from the beginning.
OK, cool. So then you agree that LLMs will be more alien than aliens-who-were-raised-on-Earth-in-crazy-internet-text-pretraining-orphanage?
I don’t necessarily agree—as I don’t consider either to be very alien. Minds are software memetic constructs so you are just comparing human software running on GPUs vs human software running on alien brains. How different that is and which is more different than human software running on ape brains now depends on many cumbersome details.