OrphanWilde comments on Friendly AI and the limits of computational epistemology - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 08 August 2012 01:16PM

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 08 August 2012 03:55:42PM 2 points [-]

That presumes consciousness can only be understood or recognized from the inside. An AI doesn't have to know what consciousness feels like (or more particularly, what "feels like" even means) in order to recognize it.

Comment author: torekp 11 August 2012 05:23:29PM 0 points [-]

True, but it does need to recognize it, and if it is somehow irreversibly committed to computationalism and that is a mistake, it will fail to be promote consciousness correctly.

For what it's worth, I strongly doubt Mitchell's argument for the "irreversibly committed" step. Even an AI lacking all human-like sensation and feeling might reject computationalism, I suspect, provided that it's false.