Okay, guys. Thank you for your comments. The truth is, I wasn’t trying for a “thesis” article, but for a light-hearted discussion with knowledgeable, intelligent people, about a subject that made me scratch my head. I hoped that you could link me to resources that would allow me to streamline my doubts, distinguish between what is possible and what isn’t, between valid paths of speculation and paths that have been just plain Jossed by the pertinent fields, with the objective of gathering enough information to synthesize it into an actual Top Level article, once we had matured the subject a little. We don’t have actual fora here, so I thought this was the standard way of doing it. Or is there no place for unprofessional, unambitious, unserious discussion here?
It also intended to be humorous, light-reading, fast-flowing, and deliberately vague: again , fodder for light conversation. The images, while illustrative for those familiar with the context, were mostly there for the sake of memetic, referential humor in the case of the Inception pic, and for the sake of a simple, synthetic, graphical metaphor in the case of the EVA image.
I don’t think I have provided any actual fictional evidence, although I have allowed The Matrix to “prime” me into a specific type of scenario among the myriad possible. I don’t think I added too many details: rather, I outlined possible paths I could figure within the limits of my imagination. For example, I abstained to discuss how the fictional worlds, matrixes, would actually be implemented: I certainly don’t expect them to rely on a single cable with a needle longer than one’s actual head, for instance. Rather, I take the fictional concept, strip it to its minimum elements, and explore from there.
See, I am a troper, a pretty committed one, and much of reality I see and codify through the prism of fiction, if only because fiction is in many ways a reflection, a portrait, and a caricature of reality, that comes from taking that imperfect copy of the universe we have in our heads and doing interesting things to it.
Finally, I have already read through all the sequences up to the Meta-ethics one (didn’t have the time to go any further yet, and haven’t read the P-Zombie subsequence). I’m sorry, I just can’t firgure out how that part affects what we’re saying here. Also, I don’t think I should be expected to write in-depth science, for now:.I am an industrial engineering student, I can write about heat transfer or electricity distribution or water pumps or building structures, but I have my hands full with that sort of stuff right now and I’d really have trouble fitting the advanced math I’d need to say anything relevant on the more hardcore AI-research topics.
I still intend to learn about that topic sooner or later, since it appears the Deus Ex Machina (is it really wrong if I call the Fully General Friendly AI this? I think it really fits...) would render my future profession next to irrelevant: if I want to avoid that same fate, I don’t have much of a choice, do I?
Okay, guys. Thank you for your comments. The truth is, I wasn’t trying for a “thesis” article, but for a light-hearted discussion with knowledgeable, intelligent people, about a subject that made me scratch my head. I hoped that you could link me to resources that would allow me to streamline my doubts, distinguish between what is possible and what isn’t, between valid paths of speculation and paths that have been just plain Jossed by the pertinent fields, with the objective of gathering enough information to synthesize it into an actual Top Level article, once we had matured the subject a little. We don’t have actual fora here, so I thought this was the standard way of doing it. Or is there no place for unprofessional, unambitious, unserious discussion here?
It also intended to be humorous, light-reading, fast-flowing, and deliberately vague: again , fodder for light conversation. The images, while illustrative for those familiar with the context, were mostly there for the sake of memetic, referential humor in the case of the Inception pic, and for the sake of a simple, synthetic, graphical metaphor in the case of the EVA image.
I don’t think I have provided any actual fictional evidence, although I have allowed The Matrix to “prime” me into a specific type of scenario among the myriad possible. I don’t think I added too many details: rather, I outlined possible paths I could figure within the limits of my imagination. For example, I abstained to discuss how the fictional worlds, matrixes, would actually be implemented: I certainly don’t expect them to rely on a single cable with a needle longer than one’s actual head, for instance. Rather, I take the fictional concept, strip it to its minimum elements, and explore from there.
See, I am a troper, a pretty committed one, and much of reality I see and codify through the prism of fiction, if only because fiction is in many ways a reflection, a portrait, and a caricature of reality, that comes from taking that imperfect copy of the universe we have in our heads and doing interesting things to it.
Finally, I have already read through all the sequences up to the Meta-ethics one (didn’t have the time to go any further yet, and haven’t read the P-Zombie subsequence). I’m sorry, I just can’t firgure out how that part affects what we’re saying here. Also, I don’t think I should be expected to write in-depth science, for now:.I am an industrial engineering student, I can write about heat transfer or electricity distribution or water pumps or building structures, but I have my hands full with that sort of stuff right now and I’d really have trouble fitting the advanced math I’d need to say anything relevant on the more hardcore AI-research topics.
I still intend to learn about that topic sooner or later, since it appears the Deus Ex Machina (is it really wrong if I call the Fully General Friendly AI this? I think it really fits...) would render my future profession next to irrelevant: if I want to avoid that same fate, I don’t have much of a choice, do I?