From: Stefan Pernar (stefan.pernar@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 10 2007 - 08:57:38 MST
Here is my question:
What is the real me independent from how I perceive myself and how I am
being perceived by other humans?
On Nov 10, 2007 10:26 PM, Wei Dai <weidai@weidai.com> wrote:
> One of the things I'd like most from a friendly SI is answers to certain
> questions. If I meet an SI and it can't answer these questions or at least
> explain why they can't be answered, I would be really disappointed. But
> it's
> hard to imagine how an optimization process can answer them (unless the
> answers are programmed into it, or it's doing something like "search for
> the
> string that maximizes intellectual satisfaction for the questioner"),
> which
> makes me think that intelligence != optimization process. Does anyone have
> a
> counterargument?
>
> Here are my questions:
>
> How does math really work? Why do we believe that P!=NP even though we
> don't
> have a proof one way or the other?
>
> How does induction really work? Why do we intuitively know that, contra
> Solomonoff Induction, we shouldn't believe in the non-existence of
> halting-problem oracles no matter what evidence we may see?
>
> Is there such a thing as absolute complexity (as opposed to complexity
> relative to a Turing machine or some other construct)?
>
> How does qualia work? Why do certain patterns of neuron firings translate
> into sensations of pain, and other patterns into pleasure?
>
> How does morality work? If I take a deterministic program that simulates a
> neuron firing pattern that represents pleasure, and run it twice, is that
> twice as good as running it once? Or good at all?
>
> Why am I me, and not one of the billions of other people on Earth, or one
> of
> the many people in other parts of the multiverse?
>
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