Aren’t non-academics and non-experts the majority,
I was talking about people who had not grokked materialism which is the majority. The people who are not aware of the technical details model AI as this black box, therefore, seem to be more open to considering that it might be agentic but that is them just deferring to an outside view that sounds convincing rather than building their own model.
so maybe people there, who are working on AI and machine learning, more often have a religious or spiritual concept of human nature, compared to their counterparts in the secularized West?
Most people I talked to were from India and it is possible there is a pattern there. But I see similar arguments come up even in the people in the west. When people say “it is just statistics”, they seem to be pointing to the idea that deterministic processes can never be agentic.
I am not trying to bring consciousness into the discussion necessarily but I think there is value in helping people make their existing philosophical beliefs more explicit so that they can see it to the natural conclusion.
I was talking about people who had not grokked materialism which is the majority. The people who are not aware of the technical details model AI as this black box, therefore, seem to be more open to considering that it might be agentic but that is them just deferring to an outside view that sounds convincing rather than building their own model.
Most people I talked to were from India and it is possible there is a pattern there. But I see similar arguments come up even in the people in the west. When people say “it is just statistics”, they seem to be pointing to the idea that deterministic processes can never be agentic.
I am not trying to bring consciousness into the discussion necessarily but I think there is value in helping people make their existing philosophical beliefs more explicit so that they can see it to the natural conclusion.