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Comment by croemer

1 year ago

What do you mean by "things that are actually teleologically useful"?

Fellow physicist here by the way

Like useful in an intentional way: purpose-built and achieves success via accurate, parsimonious models. The telos here being the stated goal of a structurally sound agent that can emulate a human being, as opposed to the accidental, max-entropy implementations we have today.

  • Sounds like an arbitrary telos, especially in a world where one of the most useful inventions in human existence has been turning dead dinosaurs into flying metal containers to transport ourselves great distances in.

    • Every goal is equally arbitrary, I'm speaking to the assumed ideology of the AI fanatics.

Not OP, but I'm assuming he means that they are maddeningly black-boxy, if you want to know how the sausage is made.