That's a nice, wide-ranging set of observations, Gina. In the coming months, I do plan to work up to a perspective that addresses (what look to me like) your two main questions: What is going on with all of this human attention to creating and evaluating identities? How should we think about the purposes of AI systems, and what are the consequences for how those systems are likely to develop?
Going forward, I expect this blog to overlap with some of those questions only insofar as they become relevant to designing artificial systems — especially by examining what has made human systems successful and where they might now be out-of-date from this perspective. I do think that the exercise of deliberately designing future intelligences can sometimes sharpen how we understand ourselves, but my primary focus here will remain on system design.
That's a nice, wide-ranging set of observations, Gina. In the coming months, I do plan to work up to a perspective that addresses (what look to me like) your two main questions: What is going on with all of this human attention to creating and evaluating identities? How should we think about the purposes of AI systems, and what are the consequences for how those systems are likely to develop?
Going forward, I expect this blog to overlap with some of those questions only insofar as they become relevant to designing artificial systems — especially by examining what has made human systems successful and where they might now be out-of-date from this perspective. I do think that the exercise of deliberately designing future intelligences can sometimes sharpen how we understand ourselves, but my primary focus here will remain on system design.