I Don't Feel I Have

Sometimes It Seems As Though Each New Step Towards Ai, Rather Than Producing Something Which Everyone Agrees Is Real Intelligence, Merely Reveals What Real Intelligence Is Not.

If A Mosquito Has A Soul, It Is Mostly Evil. So I Don't Have Too Many Qualms About Putting A Mosquito Out Of Its Misery. I'm A Little More Respectful Of Ants.

How Gullible Are You? Is Your Gullibility Located In Some "gullibility Center" In Your Brain? Could A Neurosurgeon Reach In And Perform Some Delicate Operation To Lower Your Gullibility, Otherwise Leaving You Alone? If You Believe This, You Are Pretty Gullible, And Should Perhaps Consider Such An Operation.

You Can Imagine A Soul As Being A Detailed, Elaborate Pattern That Exists Very Clearly In One Brain. When A Person Dies, The Original Is No Longer Around. But There Are Other Versions Of It In Other People's Brains. It's A Less Detailed Copy, It's Coarse-grained.

There Has To Be A Common Sense Cutoff For Craziness, And When That Threshold Is Exceeded, Then The Criteria For Publication Should Get Far, Far More Stringent.