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solatic 3 days ago

Ctrl-F -> emotion -> 0/0 not found in the article.

Trying to model AGI off how humans think, without including emotion as a fundamental building block, is like trying to build a computer that'll run without electricity. People are emotional beings first. So much of how we learn that something is good or bad is due to emotion.

In an AGI context that means:

  Happiness: how do I build an unguided feedback mechanism for reward?
  Fear: how do I build an unguided feedback mechanism to instruct to flee?
  Sadness: how do I build an unguided feedback mechanism to instruct to seek external support?
  Anger: how do I build an unguided feedback mechanism to push back on external entities that violate expectations?
  Disgust: how do I build an unguided feedback mechanism to instruct to avoid?
Maybe building artificial emotions is an engineering problem. Maybe not. But approaches that avoid emotion entirely seem ill-advised.