Josh: People learn best when they recieve simple, progressive, unambiguous
instructions or examples. This is why young humans imprint on
parent-figures,
have heroes, and so forth -- heuristics to cut the clutter and reduce
conflict of examples. An AGI that was trying to learn from the Internet from
scratch would be very confused -- but that's not a good way to teach it.
I'll be happy if I can get my system to learn from me alone. Then I can
*teach
it* to be able to handle contradictory inputs -- at least to the extent that
I can do so myself.
Nope. You're taking the obvious line, the simple, top-down, "totalitarian"
line - as indeed most people in AI/AGI do.
Nature knows better. The best way to get people to learn complex,
problematic activities is not to give them simple instructions - education
threw out rote learning and variations thereon, long ago, although it hasn't
totally embraced nature's way yet. (And simple unambiguous instructions for
any problematic activity are a philosophical, cognitive and practical
impossibility. What are Josh's simple unambiguous instructions for how to do
sex/ conversation/ tennis/ investing?)
The best way to get people to learn is to make them figure things out for
themselves .
At least you should start to be able to see now that there's a massive - and
v. significant - divide between us.
P.S. Confusion is a basic psychobiological response of the brain -
classically exemplified in the furrowed brow. Like I said, there's no
equivalent in computers. Nature doesn't produce something so fundamental
without extremely good, functional reason.
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