
AI: The Coming Thresholds and The Path We Must Take
Dr. John Vervaeke
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The Importance of Primitive Cognition
I loved the term primitive cognition and that that finally unlocked a lot of articulation for me in this general idea. I think it's quite self evident that the thing that mostly keeps us away from the rest of the animal kingdom as intelligence. And one of the reasons that we're so strongly predisposed to go right to doom and gloom is because we're looking at potentially replacing our one special characteristic, right? Yeah. So where, where does that start? And can we get all the way back to that to create a rationally thinking machine that would then maybe be able to actually exist amongst us.
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