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by carapace 1434 days ago
Cheers!

I'm going to try to work up a decent reply to your article, but it might take me a day or two.

Have you read Wendell Berry's "What are People For?" (that essay not the whole eponymous book)?

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The (open) secret at the heart of AI is that no AI can answer: "What is good?" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720621 )

AKA "Lucky for whom?" Teela Brown, fictional character in Larry Niven novels

Spoiler alert!

This link gives details of the character that are spoilers: https://larryniven.fandom.com/wiki/Teela_Brown

Unfortunately those details are the point I'm trying to make, and I'm a huge Niven fan so I'm not going to spoil Ringworld, but it ties in with the (ultimately metaphysical) question, "What is good?"