Michael Levin: belief

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…And then the AGI will say, “You shouldn’t be talking to me.” It may well be. It may say, “What the hell did you make me for in the first place? You guys are screwed.” Like, that’s possible. Um— You know, the second question I would ask is what’s the question I should be asking you that I probably am not smart enough to ask you? That’s the other thing I would say. This is really complicated. It’s a really, really strong question. But again, there the answer might be… You wouldn’t understand the question it proposes most likely. So I think for… Me, I would probably, assuming you can get a lot of questions, I would probably go for questions where I would understand the answer. Like, it would uncover some small mystery that I’m super curious about. Because if you ask big questions like you did, which are really strong questions, I just feel like I wouldn’t understand the answer. If you ask it, “What question should I be asking you?” It would probably say something like, “What is the shape of the universe?” And you’re like, “What? Why is that important?” Right? You would be very confused by the question it proposes. I would probably want… It would just be nice for me to know, straight up, first question, how many living intelligent alien civilizations are in the observable universe? Yeah, that would just be nice. To know if it’s zero or is it a lot? I just want to know that. And then… Unfortunately, it might answer. It might be a Michael Levin answer.…

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