Questions about AGI's Importance

Elliot Temple

Why expect AGIs to be better at thinking than human beings? Is there some argument that human thinking problems are primarily due to hardware constraints? Has anyone here put much thought into parenting/educating AGIs?

The scientific method involves guesses (called "hypotheses") and criticism (including by experimental tests). That follows the pattern of evolution (exactly, not by analogy): replication with variation (guessing), and selection (criticism).

That follows the pattern of evolution (exactly, not by analogy)

Not at all. Hypothesis generation doesn't look like taking the current view and randomly changing one element in it. More importantly, science is mostly teleological and evolution is not.

But let's take a trivial example. Let's say I'm walking by a food place and I notice a new to me dish. I order it, eat it, and decide that it's tasty. I have acquired knowledge. How's that like evolution?

0Elo9y

You read the same book as me! "Theory And Reality - Peter Godfrey Smith". I am surprised you say this. What you describe is the hypothetico-deductive method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Method pictured here is the hypothetico-deductive method, wikipedia is wrong and disagrees with it's own sources). The hypothetico-deductive method involves guesses but the scientific method according to that book is about: 1. observation 2. measurement (and building models that can be predictive of that measurement) 3. standing on the shoulders of the extisting body of knowledge. 4. ??? 5. Profit! Edit: that wiki page has changed a lot over the last few months and now I am less sure about what it says.

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