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by elevaet
1803 days ago
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I think this is one of "the big questions" right now. Philosophy tells us that you can't compute truth without relying on axioms. But computer science tells us that if we accept basic axioms, the computation of truth quickly becomes orders-of-magnitude too complex to compute. I suspect that this all leads us to needing to rely on coarse human input as "axioms".. which of course leads to the issue of which humans do we rely on as stalwarts of the truth? It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. My hope is that studies like these will tease out the nuances of networks so that we can engineer networks to nudge the nodes of better truth-telling to more centrality in the networks, and that gradually we'll master the art of building intelligent networks. After all, biology did it with the human brain. |
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Philosophy tells no such thing. It is not the province of philosophy to tell us the final word on what is what, and without corresponding it to any empirical exploration, asserting such a claim is mere dogmatism.
Computationalist model of "truth" (by which I think you mean reality) is dying. Embodied-embedded cognition offers an alternative in which your intelligent system has to be deeply embedded within all the other networks it has to interact with, and its adaptivity and constraints define it more than anything. There is no making an intelligent network in a test tube (talking about general intelligence).
> After all, biology did it with the human brain.
Biology might have put the required machinery, but machinery by no means is a guarantee that it will be neither intelligent nor adaptive. You could "engineer" your own network that is your body-brain to get better at conforming to reality, which is called self-transcendence and cultivating wisdom, and arguably the same principles would work for our social networks, artificial networks and us alike.
But going back to the notion of embeddedness, can a social network that will ultimately aim to conform to the norm of making more money be wiser? Can a wiser social network really out-survive a dumber one? Isn't both going to be ultimately embedded in the collective intelligence that is our economy? Therefore both will be constrained by the limits of the intelligence/wisdom of the economy, and unless there is a bunch of benevolent rich that will implement the engineered wiser social network and gift it to the humanity and get humanity to actually use it, there is no such place, i.e it is a utopia.