Vladimir_Nesov comments on David Chalmers' "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 30 January 2011 03:43:59AM *  0 points [-]

These are questions about engineering and neuroscience, not questions of philosophy. The question of what is right/wrong is a philosophical question. The question of what do humans believe about right and wrong is a psychology question. The question of how those beliefs are represented in the brain is a neuroscience question. The question of how an AI can come to learn these things is GOFAI. The question of how we will know we have done it right is a QC question. Software test. That was the subject of my comment. It had nothing at all to do with philosophy.

Sorry, not my area at the moment. I gave the links to refer to arguments for why having AI learn in the traditional sense is a bad idea, not for instructions on how to do it correctly in a currently feasible way. Nobody knows that, so you can't expect an answer, but the plan of telling the AI things we think we want it to learn is fundamentally broken. If nothing better can be done, too bad for humanity.

Ok, in this context, I interpret this to mean that we will not program in the neuroscience information that it will use to interpret the brain scans. Instead we will simply program the AI to be a good scientist.

This is much closer, although a "scientist" is probably a bad word to describe that, and given that I don't have any idea what kind of system can play this role, it's pointless to speculate. Just take as the problem statement what you quoted from the post:

try to make an AI whose physical consequence is the implementation of what is right