Despite all fallibility of memory, I would be shocked to learn that I had ever claimed that a logical paradox would make an AI go gaga. Where are you getting this from?
Ben’s never said anything like that to me. The comment about going to college was from an earnest ordinary person, not acquainted with me. And no, I didn’t snap at them, or laugh out loud; it was well-intentioned advice. Going to college is a big choice for a lot of people, and this was someone who met me, and saw that I was smart, and thought that I seemed to have the potential to go to college.
Which is to imply that if there’s a level above Jaynes, it may be that I won’t understand it until I reach Jaynes’s level—to me it will all just look like “going to college”. If I recall my timeline correctly, I didn’t comprehend Jaynes’s level until I had achieved the level of thinking naturalistically; before that time, to achieve a reductionist view of intelligence was my whole aspiration.
Despite all fallibility of memory, I would be shocked to learn that I had ever claimed that a logical paradox would make an AI go gaga. Where are you getting this from?
Ben’s never said anything like that to me. The comment about going to college was from an earnest ordinary person, not acquainted with me. And no, I didn’t snap at them, or laugh out loud; it was well-intentioned advice. Going to college is a big choice for a lot of people, and this was someone who met me, and saw that I was smart, and thought that I seemed to have the potential to go to college.
Which is to imply that if there’s a level above Jaynes, it may be that I won’t understand it until I reach Jaynes’s level—to me it will all just look like “going to college”. If I recall my timeline correctly, I didn’t comprehend Jaynes’s level until I had achieved the level of thinking naturalistically; before that time, to achieve a reductionist view of intelligence was my whole aspiration.