If you want to try to make an intuition pump argument-from-incredulity - ‘oh surely an AI or superintelligence would get bored!’ - please pick something else, because pi is a horrible example.
FWIW, I don’t think that’s what Ben was doing. It seems more like a straw-man characterisation.
Alright, I have no idea what you’ve been talking about in any of your replies and as far as I can tell, at no point have I been unclear or mischaracterized Goertzel or Bostrom, so I’m bowing out.
FWIW, I don’t think that’s what Ben was doing. It seems more like a straw-man characterisation.
I agree it’s a strawman, but I think that’s exactly what Ben is doing because that is what he wrote.
Well, not the actual bit inside quotation marks. That was made up—and not a real quotation. He didn’t mention boredom either.
It’s not a real quotation? I seem to see it in Bostrom’s paper...
What—this one? Which quotation did you think I was talking about?
Alright, I have no idea what you’ve been talking about in any of your replies and as far as I can tell, at no point have I been unclear or mischaracterized Goertzel or Bostrom, so I’m bowing out.