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shainemata in Reflections • 9 days ago

I usually feel smarter after a few beers.

I don't think intelligence has much to do with it, and could possibly make things worse. We think we are rational beings. But the unvarnished truth is that we make emotional decisions and then use our intelligence to rationalize or justify those decisions.

Take for example, government. For the most part, these are the "elite". They are largely a group of lawyers(doctors in jurisprudence), doctors (not physicians), and otherwise highly educated. Yet they have totally gummed up (polite term) society with their politics.

A less polite way of saying it is that higher intelligence yields higher level fuck-ups that are just more difficult to explain.

I think that the general fear that super AI could take over the world is telling of our innate human sense that higher intelligence is dangerous.

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tarazkp 9 days ago

A less polite way of saying it is that higher intelligence yields higher level fuck-ups that are just more difficult to explain.

As I think I explained, this is how most people anchor intelligence, to what they think is intelligent now. I am not talking about 150 IQs - I am talking about 600+ IQs or something like that - whatever level it needs to be to really understand the interconnectedness. It is far higher than any human has ever seen before.

I think that the general fear that super AI could take over the world is telling of our innate human sense that higher intelligence is dangerous.

I don't think higher intelligence is the problem with AI. I think you are conflating issues.

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shainemata 9 days ago

I'm referring to the visceral distrust of AI. I don't personally think it has merit. That animal part of us has a distrust of cleverness.

I think what you are hoping is that higher intelligence would come with higher conscientiousness. I think these are separate things. Conscientiousness can be inculturated so that intelligence is not necessary. I think your daughter is the perfect example. She is conscientious about cleaning up after yourself and not calling people idiots. I'm sure she's a bright young mind, but she didn't need 600 IQ to understand that certain things aren't right.

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tarazkp 9 days ago

I think you have misunderstood the problem. It isn't about conscientiousness alone, because problems still have to be solved in a complex and complicated system. No matter how conscientious my daughter is, she isn't going to create clean energy with it, is she? At a high enough intelligence, clean energy could be created, and used wisely.

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