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CellBioGuy comments on AI origin question - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: hairyfigment 01 November 2015 08:35PM

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 03 November 2015 08:37:06PM 0 points [-]

To be fair you could also imagine a setup without such internal interpretation, with just signal X in electrode 1 causing signal X to be disgorged in electrode 2. It would then be up to the brains on either end to learn how to modulate/interpret this new channel. People can and do learn to use such new channels all the time whenever they are provided.

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 November 2015 09:07:49PM 0 points [-]

It would then be up to the brains on either end to learn how to modulate/interpret this new channel.

I think that's still substantially about learning a new language in which to communicate and not just transmitting existing thoughts as is.