Painful Intelligence: What AI can tell us about human suffering
Aapo Hyvärinen's book "Painful Intelligence" models human suffering through AI, exploring its mechanisms and proposing interventions informed by computational neuroscience and philosophies like Buddhism and Stoicism.
cs.helsinki.fithe ultimate form of intelligence is the intelligence of life itself. It’s the intelligence of the oneness with all beings, biological and silicon-based alike. It is the intelligence of consuming only what we need and believing that the universe will always provide. It’s the intelligence of nourishing life to find its ultimate purpose – living.
we’re fortunate enough to have good intelligence and the luxury to explore and question why we and others suffer.
Such an insight arose as a result of mindfulness, or of qualities like calm or investigation.
Only by understanding our pain can we begin to control it and find better ways to deal with negative urges.