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Necro but maybe I can add something to the debate....
A problem I see is there are common cases where it is rational to be irrational, for example if being rational causes you emotional distress due to circumstances beyond your control.
And this is a big problem if one's will to be "rational" is at root based on an emotional will to be "less wrong" for the purpose of improving internal feelings of one's own value.
Because if that is the naked honest goal, then that rationalism is Hedonism by yet another name.
But realizing that might be destabilizing to the rationalist since, rationally, pure maximization of a social utilitarian value function is not a rational... (read more)
You are fully sentient (having experiences) during all phases of sleep. It is the brain processes related to MEMORY that shut down causing you not to remember it.
How do we know this? Myself and many people I've talked to have had the experience of almost falling asleep and then waking back up and realizing we were just thinking about a bunch on nonsense thoughts strung together in a stream of consciousness manner. For example:
"I am thinking about to go to the dog is up there is a good view of my office manager isnt really such a big potato chips are the lights on...."
It is clear that this kind of thought pattern
I see the petition as a stunt or a mania depending on the participant. Because the danger of AI remains low to non-existent.
But as a way to get people excited about AI and more likely to overestimate the capabilities of the current AI it is very effective.
But the hurdles that remain remain as insurmountable as ever, such as, I don't know... An AI that can actually understand anything.
Garbage in garbage out, a singularity will not make.