From: Jeff Herrlich (jeff_herrlich@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2007 - 14:27:25 MST
Actually, I do have reasons based on rationality and evidence for believing that. Yes, there will be a few common elements between man and AGI - both will use algorithms for cognition, for example. But that's about where the mandatory similarities end.
Jeffrey Herrlich
P.S. BTW, being arrogant is sort of the shtick here. C'mon you have to admit that it's a little bit fun on the rare occasion to be a little bit arrogant. :-) Don't take it too personally, if someone here wants to genuinely offend you, you'll know.
Harry Chesley <chesley@acm.org> wrote:
Jeff Herrlich wrote:
> "I think it's possible that we evolved the way we did because it
> works well, not due to the special circumstances faced by homo
> sapiens, and therefore some elements may repeat in a GAI."
>
> I have hair on my head, and I have general intelligence. But I don't
> have general intelligence because I have hair on my head. General
> intelligence is not the only adaptive advantage that evolution
> operates on. Things like emotions are not necessary for general
> intelligence, evolution tacked them on to some animals because they
> incidentally happened to have additional value in terms of survival
> and reproduction - like hair on the head.
So you understand the role that emotions play in human intelligence. You
understand the structure of future GAIs. And you know what's necessary
and what's not necessary for general intelligence. I don't understand
any of those things, so rather than taking your word for it, I'll
continue to believe there may be common elements between man and GAI,
possibly including emotions (and maybe not too).
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