It’s ya boy, Thanatos. I thought I’d give an update for anyone interested. I’ve also posted before as Ignorance Will Prevail.
I’m currently in the process of finding a new place to live and I’m considering moving west to Madison where I can participate at the homeless veteran’s center and I where I have a job lined up.
I’ve gained an interest in an academic field, Systems Engineering. I don’t really think I’m smart enough to complete a degree in the field, but it is interesting. I was considering the concept of AI and the Greek Logos, which stands for reason and is often represented by water. You see the thing about intelligence is when you think about it, it can’t be divided or reduced to numbers. That alone made me think sentient AI was impossible. But if you wanna get real technical… Sure. You can’t cut water. You can’t count water. Well. I mean. You can. If you had a quantum computer and a bucket of water and the computer already knew the weight of the bucket of water and the weight of a single molecule of H20, it could probably deduce down to a tiny margin of error the number of particles in the bucket. My point is sure, fluid may not be static, but it is quantifiable. This is all started because some girl told me IQ was bullshit. So, I went off on a tangent and ended up reading about Systems Engineering. Now as for the quantifiability of water, as a comparison I was using water as intelligence and making the case that in the case of AI it no longer mattered whether or not fluid was quantifiable, but whether the whole was more than the sum of its parts. Or rather, the whole is something besides the parts, as the quote apparently goes.
It was this article that got me interested in Systems Engineering, and I think as a job at least it sounds like a good fit for me.
Side note, my conclusion was that while we may not be able to code sentient AI, we may be able to engineer it. As for what that means for humanity…… I don’t know.
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That sounds super exciting! I don’t know your story but I’m happy that you’ve found a job you seem to be genuinely interested in. Best of luck!