Trusting without understanding
The problem with a superintelligence is not that it would be smarter than us. It is that its reasons might be true, and still out of our reach.
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Cleverness is not wisdom
Aristotle already told apart the ability to reach a goal from the ability to know which goal is worth it. Our machines excel at the first. The second is still our job.
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The inverted mirror
We ask machines to prove that they are conscious. Let us turn the question around: could we prove that we are?
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What cannot be delegated
If machines outdo us at almost everything that produces a result, what remains is whatever is valuable in the doing itself. Perhaps that is where meaning always was.