Sublime

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experience.

On this view, our most celebrated philosophers are like dogs

The ideal is that of the perfect Bayesian agent, one that makes probabilistically optimal use of available information.

Accordingly, one can view artificial intelligence as a quest to find shortcuts: ways of tractably approximating the Bayesian ideal by sacrificing some optimality or generality while preserving enough to get high performance in the actual domains of interest.

We can think of wisdom as the ability to get the important things approximately right. It

Some experts and thinkers, such as Nick Bostrom, warn that humankind is unlikely to suffer this degradation, because once artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence, it might simply exterminate humankind. The AI is likely to do so either for fear that humankind would turn against it and try to pull its plug, or in pursuit of some unfathom