RL:Suppose that in some significant part of Novamente there is a representation system that uses "probability" or "likelihood" numbers to encode the strength of facts, as in [I like cats](p=0.75). The (p=0.75) is supposed to express the idea that the statement [I like cats] is in some sense "75% true".
This essay seems to be a v.g. demonstration of why the human system almost certainly does not use numbers or anything like, as stores of value - but raw, crude emotions. "How much do you like cats [or marshmallow ice cream]?" "Miaow//[or yummy]" [those being an expression of internal nervous and muscular impulses] "And black cats [or strawberry marshmallow] ?" "Miaow-miaoww![or yummy yummy]" . It's crude but it's practical.
And we also have emotions of certainty - i.e. of fear and hope, confidence and diffidence - which are also v. crude. But practical. [Only as Eliezer, I think,pointed out, AGI-ers often feel the need to put numbers on what are actually v. crude and unreasoned feelings of optimism about AGI's future]
[The essay also seems to fit well with MW's assertion of the overrating of probability in AGI].
This whole area seems to be another manifestation of the difference between narrow AI and AGI. The latter, like IQ tests and other examples of convergent intelligence, can be marked precisely out of 100. AGI, like essays and other examples of divergent intelligence, can't.
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