10 Aug 2022 4:54 pm
FOS » 10 Aug 2022, 4:30 pm » wrote: ↑ think about it dude. Doing something requires some REASON to do that thing. The default is to do nothing. Rocks don't think because they have no reason to. What would a rock want to think about?
what is in the interest of a rock?
what could possibly be part of some rock agenda?
your confusion seems from the innate human tendency to anthropomorphize everything. We like to pretend things are sentient when they are not.
purpose has primacy over sentience. Our purpose is reproductive fitness. It is evolution.
If my ancestors did not increase their reproductive fitness for say...inventing the gun...then I never would have inherited a talent for inventing things.
The very simple model of evolution has very deep consequences about intelligence and about the nature of human beings. I actually see fascism as merely a corollary to the theory of evolution.
Doesn't AI also have some underlying purpose if it acts in response to some stimuli? You ask Alexa to play a song and does it. The reason is what you asked it to do. I also think making human existence a Darwinian struggle a relic and not in line with how all of us choose to live our lives. Catholic priests and monks for instance take a vow of celibacy. You can find this sort of behavior in many other cultures globally. Weren't not all just trying to score. Especially in cultures where pre marital sex is forbidden.
Nothing is easier than defending the status quo.