A set of instructions written by someone with conscious intent for a machine lacking such a capability. — apokrisis
Normal computational hardware doesn't live in the world at all. It gets fabricated. It gets plugged into a wall socket. It gets given information already determined in its form by whoever decided what counted as meaningful input. It is just a machine blindly executing a program. It can do "anything" because nothing it does has to be meaningful in terms of maintaining its physical existence. — apokrisis
Either I'm out of my depth or there's something about the fact that all our reasoning, whether by a 5 year old toddler or the great Einstein himself, can be reduced to just 20 basic inference rules. Logic is the essence of our intelligence, no? — TheMadFool
A question I would like to ask though, is why do we think intelligence has necessarily a lot to do with consciousness? They seem like two separate things to me... — ChatteringMonkey
This is probably an oversimplification but what is consciousness but information processing and if it is that then any information processor must be capable of it. :chin: — TheMadFool
They read like strings of barely connected propositions with ill defined terms. They were certainly no good as conversation starters. — StreetlightX
First, don't post three threads on the same topic in rapid succession. Second, they made very little sense. — StreetlightX
why is suffering regarded as bad? — Augustusea
It seems so that gifted individuals find best jobs, and many of them tend to be pictured as "psychopaths", "sociopaths". But being gifted has nothing to do with choosing right or wrong in all ethical acts, ethical "goodness" only applies to the skill-set that requires you to complete your job task.
You might have "good work" -ethics, but bad in other categories of ethics. — batsushi7
English, please. Simple sentences are good. — tim wood
Egg-zack-ly. — tim wood
Hypothesis: I'm wicked smaht. Then Shawn, "
How does being wicked smaht alter or modify one's behavior?
— Shawn
Answer: it doesn't, I've always been this way. — tim wood