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Ep 15: A diversion on Free Will and Artificial Intelligence

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How to Write an Algaritm for Humans

Dogs and animals obey simple rules that essentially come down to a basic principle of biology, do what is best for your survival. People are not like this at all - we frequently and easily do things that are not about our survival or insuring our genes are passed on to the next generation. We cannot write a program to model human minds. If we could, we'd have artificial general intelligence, computers that could think exactly like people, computers that were people. But we can't do this, not yet. So instead, we give labels to some of the very special capacities that people have that nothing else in the universe we know of has the most. All of these labels are free will

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