tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post2569687972174475634..comments2024-03-27T21:43:02.451-04:00Comments on NEW SAVANNA: Is the world intelligible?Bill Benzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-11207156586784034732015-01-18T22:00:10.269-05:002015-01-18T22:00:10.269-05:00Two things, Rick:
1) John Brockman's Edge jus...Two things, Rick:<br /><br />1) John Brockman's Edge just published its annual question and this year it's about 'thinking machines'. Dan Dennet's reply speaks rather directly to your concern, and <a href="http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/01/dan-dennett-on-thinking-machines.html" rel="nofollow">I've excerpted it at New Savanna</a>, along with selections from several Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-55826822469620199012015-01-18T20:03:55.576-05:002015-01-18T20:03:55.576-05:00Hello again Bill,
Perhaps I'm just more conce...Hello again Bill,<br /><br />Perhaps I'm just more concerned about the question of intelligibility than you are. Cowen kind of brings it upon in a matter of fact manner and never really interrogates the idea. <br /><br />I think you're right that some branches of science have been basically unintelligible to everyone but a few specialists for a very long time, but let's imagine you Rick Searlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13687883294281978019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-26899986507642655452015-01-17T16:28:39.179-05:002015-01-17T16:28:39.179-05:00Hi Rick, good to see you here. First of all, thoug...Hi Rick, good to see you here. First of all, though I follow Cowen's blog closely, I've not read <i>Average is Over</i>. I've read about that sort of chess (at his blog) but that's about it. As I understand it, the final move is up to the human player who can always refuse to follow a computer recommendation that makes no sense whatever. But the cost of following a strange Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-56309838748818841372015-01-17T14:00:56.037-05:002015-01-17T14:00:56.037-05:00Hi Bill, thanks for linking to my posts. I’ll try ...Hi Bill, thanks for linking to my posts. I’ll try to put this comment both here and on my blog to make sure you see it, for I would like to hear your response.<br /><br />Like yourself, I do not not believe in the Singularity as an “intelligence explosion”. Though, what I think Cowen discussed and which worries me as well is something different.<br /><br />We already have a problem of Rick Searlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13687883294281978019noreply@blogger.com