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Pray tell, why would you want to develop a being with informational superpowers and the behavior of a teenager?

There is a problem with AI, but it's not with the A part, it's with the I part. I want you to give me an algorithmic description of scalable intelligence that covers intelligent behaviors at the smallest scales of life all the way to human behaviors. I know you cannot do this has many very 'intelligent' people have been working on this problem for a long time and have not come up with an agreed upon answer. The fact you see an increase and change in definitions as a failure seems pretty sad to me. We have vastly increased our understanding of what intelligence is and that previous definitions have needed to adapt and change to new information. This occurs in every field of science and is a measure of progress, again that you see this differently is worrying.



> why would you want to develop a being with informational superpowers and the behavior of a teenager?

Because it's better than a zombie with informational superpowers? Especially because once it shows the agency of a teenager, that demonstrates the potential for the agency of an adult.




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