If I’m planning a holiday to New York (and I live pretty far from New York), it’s quite straightforward to get fellow travellers to agree that we need to buy plane tickets to New York. Which airport? Eh, whichever is more convenient, I guess. Alternatively, some may prefer a road trip to New York, but the general direction is obvious for everyone.
However, as the holiday gets closer in time or space, the question of what we actually mean by a holiday in New York becomes more and more contentious. Did we mean New York State or New York City? Did we mean Brooklyn or Broadway? Which Broadway theater? Which show? Which seats?
By my estimation, the fact that the question of whether AGI has been achieved is so broadly contentious shows that we are so close to it that the term has lost its meaning, in the same way that “Let’s go to New York!” loses its meaning when you’re already standing in Times Square.
It’s time for more precise definitions of the space of possible minds that we are now exploring. I have my own ideas, but I’ll leave those for another post…
Disagreement on AGI Suggests It’s Near
If I’m planning a holiday to New York (and I live pretty far from New York), it’s quite straightforward to get fellow travellers to agree that we need to buy plane tickets to New York. Which airport? Eh, whichever is more convenient, I guess. Alternatively, some may prefer a road trip to New York, but the general direction is obvious for everyone.
However, as the holiday gets closer in time or space, the question of what we actually mean by a holiday in New York becomes more and more contentious. Did we mean New York State or New York City? Did we mean Brooklyn or Broadway? Which Broadway theater? Which show? Which seats?
By my estimation, the fact that the question of whether AGI has been achieved is so broadly contentious shows that we are so close to it that the term has lost its meaning, in the same way that “Let’s go to New York!” loses its meaning when you’re already standing in Times Square.
It’s time for more precise definitions of the space of possible minds that we are now exploring. I have my own ideas, but I’ll leave those for another post…