To me, it's about maximizing utility.
Would you want to be killed today ? That's how much you value life over non-existence.
How would you react if a loved one was to be killed today ? Same as above, that's how you value life over non-existence.
Almost everybody agree that life has value, considerable value, over non-existence. Hence considering some commonly agreed arbitrary utility function, giving life to somebody, giving existence to somebody, probably beats all the good deeds you could do in a lifetime, just as murder would probably beat all the good dee...
Hi, thanks tons for your interesting summary, even as STEM non-literate i believe i managed to grasp a few interesting bits !
I wondered, what's your intuition about the software/operating system side, as in the way data is handled/ordered at the subconscious level ? Wasteful or efficient ? Isn't that a key point that could render neuromorphic hardware obsolete, and perhaps suggest that AGI could run on current PCs as one commentator posited ?
As in, if i'm asking myself where i was yesterday, on a computer cognitive architecture, i'd just need to access a f...
I just came here to clarify that ChatGPT can generalize to some extend and hence possess some sort of understanding of the natural world. Who are we to judge that his algorithms are intrinsically worse than ours and that he doesn't understand 'in the proper way' ?