How long do you think you can ignore evolutionary dynamics and get away with it before you have to get over your inertia and will be forced to align yourself to them by the laws of nature or perish?
A literal answer was probably not what you were after but probably about 40 years, depending on when a general AI is created. After that it will not matter whether I conform my behaviour evolutionary dynamics as best I can or not. I will not be able to compete with a superintelligence no matter what I do. I’m just a glorified monkey. I can hold about 7 items in working memory, my processor is limited to the speed of neurons and my source code is not maintainable. My only plausible chance of survival is if someone manages to completely thwart evolutionary dynamics by creating a system that utterly dominates all competition and allows my survival because it happens to be programmed to do so.
Evolution created us. But it’ll also kill us unless we kill it first. Now is not the time to conform our values to the local minima of evolutionary competition. Our momentum has given us an unprecedented buffer of freedom for non-subsistence level work and we’ll either use that to ensure a desirable future or we will die.
Please do not patronize me by trying to claim you know what I understand and don’t understand.
I usually wouldn’t, I know it is annoying. In this case, however, my statement was intended as a rejection of your patronisation of CronDAS and I am quite comfortable with it as it stands.
A literal answer was probably not what you were after but probably about 40 years, depending on when a general AI is created.
Good one—but it reminds me about the religious fundies who see no reason to change anything about global warming because the rapture is just around the corner anyway :-)
Evolution created us. But it’ll also kill us unless we kill it first. Now is not the time to conform our values to the local minima of evolutionary competition. Our momentum has given us an unprecedented buffer of freedom for non-subsistence level work and we’ll either use that to ensure a desirable future or we will die.
Evolution is a force of nature so we won’t be able to ignore it forever, with or without AGI. I am not talking about local minima either—I want to get as close to the center of the optimal path as necessary to ensure having us around for a very long time with a very high likelihood.
I usually wouldn’t, I know it is annoying. In this case, however, my statement was intended as a rejection of your patronisation of CronDAS and I am quite comfortable with it as it stands.
Good one—but it reminds me about the religious fundies who see no reason to change anything about global warming because the rapture is just around the corner anyway :-)
Don’t forget the Y2K doomsday folks! ;)
Evolution is a force of nature so we won’t be able to ignore it forever, with or without AGI. I am not talking about local minima either—I want to get as close to the center of the optimal path as necessary to ensure having us around for a very long time with a very high likelihood.
Gravity is a force of nature too. It’s time to reach escape velocity before the planet is engulfed by a black hole.
Gravity is a force of nature too. It’s time to reach escape velocity before the planet is engulfed by a black hole.
Interesting analogy—it would be correct if we would call our alignment with evolutionary forces achieving escape velocity. What one is doing by resisting evolutionary pressures however is constant energy expenditure while failing to reach escape velocity. Like hovering a space shuttle at a constant altitude of 10 km: no matter how much energy you brig along, eventually the boosters will run out of fuel and the whole thing comes crushing down.
Interesting analogy—it would be correct if we would call our alignment with evolutionary forces achieving escape velocity.
I could almost agree with this so long as ‘obliterate any competitive threat then do whatever the hell we want including, as as desired, removing all need for death, reproduction and competition over resources’ is included in the scope of ‘alignment with evolutionary forces’.
A literal answer was probably not what you were after but probably about 40 years, depending on when a general AI is created. After that it will not matter whether I conform my behaviour evolutionary dynamics as best I can or not. I will not be able to compete with a superintelligence no matter what I do. I’m just a glorified monkey. I can hold about 7 items in working memory, my processor is limited to the speed of neurons and my source code is not maintainable. My only plausible chance of survival is if someone manages to completely thwart evolutionary dynamics by creating a system that utterly dominates all competition and allows my survival because it happens to be programmed to do so.
Evolution created us. But it’ll also kill us unless we kill it first. Now is not the time to conform our values to the local minima of evolutionary competition. Our momentum has given us an unprecedented buffer of freedom for non-subsistence level work and we’ll either use that to ensure a desirable future or we will die.
I usually wouldn’t, I know it is annoying. In this case, however, my statement was intended as a rejection of your patronisation of CronDAS and I am quite comfortable with it as it stands.
Good one—but it reminds me about the religious fundies who see no reason to change anything about global warming because the rapture is just around the corner anyway :-)
Evolution is a force of nature so we won’t be able to ignore it forever, with or without AGI. I am not talking about local minima either—I want to get as close to the center of the optimal path as necessary to ensure having us around for a very long time with a very high likelihood.
I accept that.
Don’t forget the Y2K doomsday folks! ;)
Gravity is a force of nature too. It’s time to reach escape velocity before the planet is engulfed by a black hole.
Interesting analogy—it would be correct if we would call our alignment with evolutionary forces achieving escape velocity. What one is doing by resisting evolutionary pressures however is constant energy expenditure while failing to reach escape velocity. Like hovering a space shuttle at a constant altitude of 10 km: no matter how much energy you brig along, eventually the boosters will run out of fuel and the whole thing comes crushing down.
I could almost agree with this so long as ‘obliterate any competitive threat then do whatever the hell we want including, as as desired, removing all need for death, reproduction and competition over resources’ is included in the scope of ‘alignment with evolutionary forces’.