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#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Consensus?
We're an evolved system that we have biological advantages in knowing where solid objects are. So we've got this system in our head that integrates our perceptions into this coherent view of things. But see, that doesn't mean it's any of it is real. You just establish a consensus. It could be very distant from something that's real in engineering sense of real. Like you could build it using physics. Yeah. And if you hear a door slam, you might turn to see what it is. If the robot at the same time turns to look at the door slam, it's ratifying your perception. I think that a valuable application for an AI robot would be just to do nothing
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