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by JohnPrine 1128 days ago
Can you explain your understanding of the orthogonality thesis? I don't think the ability of intelligent agents to plan conflicts with it
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maybe a way I would phrase it that is more interesting than vanilla phrasing:

hand wavy dynamical systems interpretation:

attractors in mental space diverge as intelligence increases (or something like that, have no overlap or stable orbit changes randomly)

I don't agree with it but something along that line would be the more sophisticated take on it imo.

also in order for this to worry you you kind of have to assume some other things, like that those non overlapping orbits will necessarily lead to conflict over resources in the physical world, which I think is also probably wrong in general lol