Did Gauss say that learning was only the greatest enjoyment when no one else was known to already know the thing you are learning?
replyHappiness is a pointless goal anyway. It's not a metric that can be used to measure the success or failure of any particular policy.
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reply> Happiness is a pointless goal anyway.
replySpoken like a true robot. For most of us, happiness (and I mean that broadly defined, e.g. "life satisfaction") is the only goal. I certainly thing happiness is a much more critical goal than "increasing shareholder value".
I know some real assholes who seem quite satisfied with their lives. A shot of heroin will make you happy … for a while. It's a meaningless goal. Regardless of your snarky comment about "shareholder value", we should all aim to make a positive contribution to society and achieve something of lasting value (not necessarily monetary). Happiness might come with that as a side effect but only a fool treats happiness as a goal.
replyThis is inherently my whole problem with the "AI utopianists", who somehow think we'll all be happy once we're sitting around with no disease just eating bonbons all day or something.
replyI don't know about Gauss, but when I am given a more powerful tool, I use it to tackle harder problems, the kind that were out of reach before.
Call me when you run out of those sorts of problems. I'll propose some more.
Why would he call you? AI will propose those new problems instead, and tackle them without any need for your (or any human’s) intervention
replyAwesome. Next stop Kardashev Type III, I guess!
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