[podcast] Kevin Kelly Econtalk
Kevin Kelly on advice: “don’t be the best, be the only” So much of tech criticism is fear-mongering about imaginary harms of what it will do to other people.
Follow the “proactionary principle”: evaluate based on the actual evidence for how something is being used. Always ask “compared to what?”
On AI: there’s no such thing as a single “intelligence”. They’re “Artificial Aliens”
But Russ cautions he enthusiasm was tempered after reading Eric Hoel, “I am Bing, and I am evil”
Writing an essay is a more primitive, more elemental thing than we thought, like playing chess. “Creativity is not the high bar that we thought”. “Writing is not the sophisticated achievement that we thought”
But none of this is near consciousness.
See David Chalmers Why Isn’t There More Progress in Philosophy?
AIs are valuable because they’re different from us. They give us creative insights we ordinarily wouldn’t get.
A fundamental problem that ChatGPT exposes: how can you tell what to trust?
The problem of translation reveals how the nuances are not translatable.
We don’t know what “more ethical than humans” means.
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