Michael Levin: uncertainty

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…Oh, yeah —tell you the answers, right? Like, sometimes it’s just like, “Come on, just give me the answer. Let’s move on with this, you know, cancer protocol and whatever.” Like, great. But in the long run, the process of discovering it yourself, how much of that are we willing to give up? And by getting a final answer, how much have we missed of stuff we might have found along the way? Now, I don’t know what the… The thing is, I don’t think it’s correct to say, “Don’t do that at all. You know, take the time in all the blind alleys,” and like… That may not be optimal either, but we don’t know what the optimal is. We don’t know how much we should be stumbling around versus having somebody tell us the answer. That’s actually a brilliant question to ask AGI then.…

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