“Catholicism predicts that all soulless optimizers will explicitly represent and maximize their evolutionary fitness function” is a pretty unusual view (even as Catholic views go)! If you want answers to take debates about God and free will into account, I suggest mentioning God/Catholicism in the title.
More broadly, my recommendation would be to read all of https://www.lesswrong.com/rationality and flag questions and disagreements there before trying to square any AI safety stuff with your religious views.
Regarding the first part of your comment: If I understand the quoted section correctly, I don’t think I know enough about biology or theology to confidently take a position on that view. Is the observed behavior of some soulless optimizer (e.g. intelligent non-human primates) significantly different from what one would expect if they only maximized inclusive genetic fitness? If so, that would definitely answer my question.
Thank you for the prompt response to a poorly-worded question!
I’m not particularly interested in answers that take God/free will into account; I was just hoping to find evidence/justifications for the existence of optimization daemons other than evolution. It sounds like my question would be clearer and more relevant if I removed the mention of religion?
“Catholicism predicts that all soulless optimizers will explicitly represent and maximize their evolutionary fitness function” is a pretty unusual view (even as Catholic views go)! If you want answers to take debates about God and free will into account, I suggest mentioning God/Catholicism in the title.
More broadly, my recommendation would be to read all of https://www.lesswrong.com/rationality and flag questions and disagreements there before trying to square any AI safety stuff with your religious views.
Regarding the first part of your comment: If I understand the quoted section correctly, I don’t think I know enough about biology or theology to confidently take a position on that view. Is the observed behavior of some soulless optimizer (e.g. intelligent non-human primates) significantly different from what one would expect if they only maximized inclusive genetic fitness? If so, that would definitely answer my question.
Thank you for the prompt response to a poorly-worded question!
I’m not particularly interested in answers that take God/free will into account; I was just hoping to find evidence/justifications for the existence of optimization daemons other than evolution. It sounds like my question would be clearer and more relevant if I removed the mention of religion?