chapter 2: Modern AIs are grown through gradient descent, not crafted by human design. The process involves trillions of parameters that no human understands, just as human DNA consists of billions of base pairs that no human understands. AI development is more like biology than…
chapter 3: Goal-directed behavior in AI constitutes genuine "wanting" regardless of implementation (or at least, if the behavior looks identical to wanting, the distinction is philosophical not practical- why privilege brainwaves as more "real" than AI inference?). Natural…
chapter 4: Human food preferences (such as ice cream) appear disconnected from evolutionary optimization, or at least it is not obvious at first glance why we prefer ice cream over, say, bear fat + honey + salt. Similarly, humans desire sex independently from reproduction and…