Properly… perhaps.
But when the approaching world is zero-sum, then both machine+human groups or else simply machines who’re higher at gathering assets and exploiting them will merely ‘win.’
“Can situations and incentives be arrange, in order that the patterns which might be strengthened are positive-sum for the best number of members, together with legacy-organic people and the planet?”
You understand the place that at all times leads me – to the irony that positive-sum methods are typically inherently aggressive, although underneath equity rule-sets that we have witnessed attaining PS over the past couple of centuries.
In distinction, alas, this different Noēma essay about AI is a protracted and eloquent whine, contributing nothing helpful.
== Let’s attempt to parse this out logically and easily ==
I maintain coming again to the wisest factor ever mentioned in a Hollywood movie: by Clint Eastwood as Soiled Harry in Magnum Drive.
“A person’s bought to know his limitations.”
Amongst the entire traits we see exhibited within the trendy frenzy over AI, the one I discover most annoying is what number of of us appear so certain they’ve it sussed! They then prescribe what we ‘ought to’ do, by way of rules, or finger-wagged moralizings, or capitalistic laissez faire…
… whereas ignoring the one device that bought us right here.
…. Reciprocal Accountability.
Okay. Let’s parse it out, in separate steps which might be every exhausting to disclaim:
1. We’re all delusional to some extent, mistaking subjective perceptions for goal info. Present AIs aren’t any exception… and future ones seemingly will stay so, simply expressing their delusions extra convincingly.
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