I’ll admit it straight up did not occur to me that you could possibly be analogizing between a human’s lifelong, online learning process, and a single inference run of an already trained model. Those are just completely different things in my ontology.
Anyways, thank you for your response. I actually do think it helped clarify your perspective for me.
Edit: I have now included Yudkowsky’s correction of his intent in the post, as well as an explanation of why I think his corrected argument is still wrong.
I’ll admit it straight up did not occur to me that you could possibly be analogizing between a human’s lifelong, online learning process, and a single inference run of an already trained model. Those are just completely different things in my ontology.
Anyways, thank you for your response. I actually do think it helped clarify your perspective for me.
Edit: I have now included Yudkowsky’s correction of his intent in the post, as well as an explanation of why I think his corrected argument is still wrong.