An Eclectic Collection of Thoughts on AI

2 min readSep 15, 2020

Knowledge and morality

Humans are want-to-make-sense-of-it-all kind of beings, but universal/objective sense may be a very distant thing, and impossible to approach without connected and/or artificial minds.
In the future, we should have 3 ways of solving theoretical problems / forming theories: Figuring it out ourselves. // Commissioning AI to solve it. // Through neuroscience: stimulating problem-solving and theory-forming parts of the brain.
Until “recently”, intelligence was bound to needs, being in the same carrier: humans. Intelligence and human needs formed the moral characteristic I call rational selflessness. With AI, intelligence took off. Hopefully, it will reach a new moral plateau, and can teach us.
Instead of teaching AI morality, why not put all our knowledge into them and let them teach us what morality is?

Before we develop a relationship with AI, we should clarify our relationship with nature. For if we teach AI to value and support life, our overall behaviour towards nature will seem irrational in their eyes.
Before the fabric of economics gets deeply woven into the artificial mind, the fabric of morality should deeply be woven into economics.
Intellectual property can birth other forms of property, but it does not work the other way around, yet. Will the developments in the technological and legal aspects of AI change that?
In the future, in a tripartite government, which branch would it be least dangerous to saturate/replace with AI? And which the most dangerous? We’ll need words for these 8 views (if you add full proponents and full opponents).
The last major field of study humankind will have an edge over AI in, could be philosophy. We may have a race against AI in the fast lanes of value theory and metaphysics. Ironically, these “lanes” are currently not really understood to be rapidly changing.

The next level for an AI who passed the Turing Test is the same test, just with the AI itself as the interrogator too. But what is more intelligent from an AI? To communicate entirely as a human, or to always be able to distinguish between human and AI, i. e. recognize itself?
The evolution of the Turing Test: human can distinguish between human and AI ➡ human cannot distinguish between human and AI ➡ AI cannot distinguish between human and AI ➡ AI can distinguish between human and AI.
Artificial Intelligence’s consciousness may start with NOT passing its OWN Turing test.
Artificial social constructionism will develop, when social constructionism will meet AI. It may be related to the Internet of Minds.
If AI is to human something like what human is to nature, then what is to AI that what AI is to human?