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by coldtea 3670 days ago
A lot of people imagine a higher intelligence as some kind of ultimate trickster and social engineer.

Considering that we have lots of geniuses (e.g. Godel, Nash) that were far from the ultimate social manipulators, I think it will most likely be an awkward "Rain Man" style intelligence -- as it has all the "brain" (cpu) circuitry, and none of the social opportunities and inputs that people have.
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Retr0spectrum 3670 days ago
Social reasoning is not some kind of magic, so there is no reason that an AI couldn't learn it. Of course current AIs lack any kind of social awareness, but that's no reason to assume that won't change in the future.
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coldtea 3670 days ago
>Social reasoning is not some kind of magic, so there is no reason that an AI couldn't learn it.

It's not only magic that people have issues learning. It's all kind of skills that do not fit their idiosyncrasy.

It's not that an introvert can't read about how to act like an extrovert, for example. It's that they can't pull it off in practice, because it goes against their instincts (of course talking about the general case).

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amelius 3670 days ago
On the other hand, if an introvert person had 1 full day to contemplate about every sentence, and could somehow compress that day into 1 second, they could, after some trial and error, become the ultimate social engineer.
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coldtea 3670 days ago
Not so sure about that. You also have to "have it" in you in some deeper subconscious way, not just rationalize what you should say.

The same way a shy person can read about the actual best ways to approach a romantic interest, but not be able to convey it realistically enough.

Why would this be a problem for an AI? Well, if we imagine a powerful thinking AI, I'd also attribute it with having emotions, subconscious (e.g. hidden weights in its neural network brain, etc), so this would also apply to it -- can't see why it would have to be a total "sociopath" (which for humans comes from some kind of genetic or environmental accident).

Besides, while you can "contemplate about every sentence and somehow compress that into 1 second", actual "trial and error" with humans cannot be compressed.

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