Regarding the first enigma, the expectation that what has worked in the past will work in the future is not a feature of the world, it’s a feature of our brains. That’s just how neural networks work, they predict the future based on past data.
Regarding the third enigma, ethical principles are not features of the world, they are parameters of our neural networks, however those parameters have been acquired.
Regarding the second enigma, I am less confident, but I think something similar is going on. Here my metaphor is not the ML branch of AI, but the symbolic processing branch of AI. Or System 2 rather than System 1, to use a different metaphor. Logic and math are not features of the world, but features of our brains.
Regarding the first enigma, the expectation that what has worked in the past will work in the future is not a feature of the world, it’s a feature of our brains. That’s just how neural networks work, they predict the future based on past data.
If it’s a feature of our brains , but not the world, then it’s not going to work. Unless you get very Kantian and insist that out brains are determining the world....
Regarding the third enigma, ethical principles are not features of the world, they are parameters of our neural networks, however those parameters have been acquired.
Which, again, doesn’t address the issue of how valid they are...even if you invented something, you can do better or worse at it.
Regarding the first enigma, the expectation that what has worked in the past will work in the future is not a feature of the world, it’s a feature of our brains. That’s just how neural networks work, they predict the future based on past data.
Yeah right, we are definitely hard-wired to predict the future based on the past, and in general the phenomenon of predicting the future based on the past is a phenomenon of the mind, not of the world. But it sure would be nice to know whether that aspects of our minds is helping us to see things clearly or not. For me personally, I found it very difficult to get to work with full conviction without spending some real time investigating this.
Another way to say this is that we are born hard-wired to do all kinds of things, and we can look at our various hard-wirings and reflect on whether they are helping us to see things clearly and decide what to do about them. Now you might say that neural networks predict the future based on the past in a way that is a level more ingrained than any one particular heuristic or bias. But to me that just makes it all the more pressing to investigate whether this deep aspect of our brains is helping or hurting our capacity to see things clearly. I just found that I could put this question aside for only so long.
Regarding the first enigma, the expectation that what has worked in the past will work in the future is not a feature of the world, it’s a feature of our brains. That’s just how neural networks work, they predict the future based on past data.
Regarding the third enigma, ethical principles are not features of the world, they are parameters of our neural networks, however those parameters have been acquired.
Regarding the second enigma, I am less confident, but I think something similar is going on. Here my metaphor is not the ML branch of AI, but the symbolic processing branch of AI. Or System 2 rather than System 1, to use a different metaphor. Logic and math are not features of the world, but features of our brains.
If it’s a feature of our brains , but not the world, then it’s not going to work. Unless you get very Kantian and insist that out brains are determining the world....
Which, again, doesn’t address the issue of how valid they are...even if you invented something, you can do better or worse at it.
Yeah right, we are definitely hard-wired to predict the future based on the past, and in general the phenomenon of predicting the future based on the past is a phenomenon of the mind, not of the world. But it sure would be nice to know whether that aspects of our minds is helping us to see things clearly or not. For me personally, I found it very difficult to get to work with full conviction without spending some real time investigating this.
Another way to say this is that we are born hard-wired to do all kinds of things, and we can look at our various hard-wirings and reflect on whether they are helping us to see things clearly and decide what to do about them. Now you might say that neural networks predict the future based on the past in a way that is a level more ingrained than any one particular heuristic or bias. But to me that just makes it all the more pressing to investigate whether this deep aspect of our brains is helping or hurting our capacity to see things clearly. I just found that I could put this question aside for only so long.