Robin, almost certainly yes on that one. In the same way as policymakers, filmmakers have a vast inferential gap to cross. Your idea suggests that it is the limits of the audiences’ intellects that define the watered-down content of the film/policy, which makes far more sense.
Jack, the hell with incentives, Hollywood doesn’t have the ability.
This is pretty much meaningless, isn’t it? Hollywood makes what sells. If it was misguided about what might sell; say, aiming too low; it would quickly be gazumped. It rarely is. This tells us something about the audience, not the industry.
Why is one not allowed to generalise from fictional evidence, but Eliezer allowed to seriously criticise the supposedly limited mindsets of those who think up entertaining plotlines? People like being entertained by wrong stuff! Well...yeah. That’s what we have science for. Movies are for the end of the day when we actually want to suspend our disbelief. I’m not saying that most people don’t use their own minds as points of departure for thinking about other things—you’ve long since convinced me this is the case. The fiction people enjoy is just not good evidence.
If you asked a scriptwriter for the original Star Trek series whether he really, truly believed that an AI would turn good at the last minute and develop emotions, the answer wouldn’t be ‘yes’ or ‘no’. It would be ‘don’t know, don’t care’.
Robin, almost certainly yes on that one. In the same way as policymakers, filmmakers have a vast inferential gap to cross. Your idea suggests that it is the limits of the audiences’ intellects that define the watered-down content of the film/policy, which makes far more sense.
Jack, the hell with incentives, Hollywood doesn’t have the ability.
This is pretty much meaningless, isn’t it? Hollywood makes what sells. If it was misguided about what might sell; say, aiming too low; it would quickly be gazumped. It rarely is. This tells us something about the audience, not the industry.
Why is one not allowed to generalise from fictional evidence, but Eliezer allowed to seriously criticise the supposedly limited mindsets of those who think up entertaining plotlines? People like being entertained by wrong stuff! Well...yeah. That’s what we have science for. Movies are for the end of the day when we actually want to suspend our disbelief. I’m not saying that most people don’t use their own minds as points of departure for thinking about other things—you’ve long since convinced me this is the case. The fiction people enjoy is just not good evidence.
If you asked a scriptwriter for the original Star Trek series whether he really, truly believed that an AI would turn good at the last minute and develop emotions, the answer wouldn’t be ‘yes’ or ‘no’. It would be ‘don’t know, don’t care’.