Robert, Thanks for the tip on the book -- I will order a copy. He sounds a bit like Kant who basically held the judgment to be ... from Stanford Philo Encyclopedia:
Kant’s taking the innate capacity for judgment to be the central cognitive faculty of the human mind, in the sense that judgment, alone among our various cognitive achievements, is the joint product of all of the other cognitive faculties operating coherently and systematically together under a single higher-order unity of rational self-consciousness (the centrality thesis) On 5/20/22, Robert Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder if Mike is nodding implicitly to the thesis of "The Promise of > Artificial Intelligence" by Brian Cantwell Smith in which he defines > "judgement" as a key feature of true intelligence as realized by living > agents, in contrast with a less authentic alternative he calls > "reckoning". His aim is to work out what is needed to get to machines that > exercise true judgement. BCS contends that judgement demands a pragmatic > involvement in the world such that something really is at stake for the > agent. For living agents, the ultimate source of this skin in the game is > the imperative of staying far from thermodynamic equilibrium, an objective > that steers all levels of self-maintenant process from self-repair to > immunal response to attention and awareness. > > On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 12:12 PM Boris Kazachenko <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Then I guess your "judgement" is top-level choices. The problem is, GI >> can't have a fixed top level, forming incrementally higher levels of >> generalization is what scalable learning is all about. So, any choice on >> any level is "judgement", which renders the term meaningless. >> *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* >> / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + >> participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + >> delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> >> Permalink >> <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta80108e594369c8d-M32fccb756b8d409de7fba193> >> ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta80108e594369c8d-M180ab18f1ebae30724257cdf Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
