Comment by idlewords
3 years ago
You're mixing metaphors in your "trivial rebuttal", to stay with the analogy Hawking would have to hire a cat.
3 years ago
You're mixing metaphors in your "trivial rebuttal", to stay with the analogy Hawking would have to hire a cat.
We're allowed to assume the existence of cat carriers in this metaphor, but not the existence of the humans that are the sole reason cat carriers exist?
I was trying to be generous! But you are of course right, in the better analogy Hawking would find himself born into a feline-centric world and face an even harder task.
He’d have to be able to communicate with the cat for it to be a worthwhile metaphor to the ai in a box case and humans.
If he can do that it requires one weak link human over an infinite time horizon.
Humans are already terrible at preventing breaches in a lot dumber circumstances without something smarter than them trying to do it.
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