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| Anthropomorphism: Anthropomorphism attributes human-like traits or intentions to non-human entities, often used to understand or relate to them, but can lead to conceptual errors in philosophical discussions._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Eliezer Yudkowsky on Anthropomorphism - Dictionary of Arguments
Bostrom I 112 Anthropomorphism/superintelligence/Yudkowsky/Bostrom: Even if we recognize that a superintelligence can have all the skills and talents we find in the human distribution, along with other talents that are not found among humans, the tendency toward anthropomorphizing can still lead us to underestimate the extent to which a machine superintelligence could exceed the human level of performance. Eliezer Yudkowsky (…) has been particularly emphatic in condemning this kind of misconception: our intuitive concepts of “smart” and “stupid” are distilled from our experience of variation over the range of human thinkers, yet the differences in cognitive ability within this human cluster are trivial in comparison to the differences between any human intellect and a superintelligence.(1)(2) >Superintelligence, >Artificial intelligence, >Strong artificial intelligence, >Human level AI. 1. Yudkowsky, Eliezer. 2008a. “Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk.” In Global Catastrophic Risks, edited by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Ćirković, 308–45. New York: Oxford University Press. 2. Yudkowsky, Eliezer. 2013. Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics, Technical Report 2013–1. Berkeley, CA: Machine Intelligence Research Institute._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Yudkowsky, Eliezer Bostrom I Nick Bostrom Superintelligence. Paths, Dangers, Strategies Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017 |
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