Mindspace, or the design space of minds-in-general is the space of all possible minds. Eliezer Yudkwosky warned that mindspace is large and mostly filled with minds that are not human-like or even human-understandable. Indeed, humans largely failed to prefigure Simulator-AI, arguably the first region of non-biological mindspace that we've come into actual contact with.
quotes about mindspace
ey_trick_question People ask me, "What will Artificial Intelligences be like? What will they do? Tell us your amazing story about the future."
And lo, I say unto them, "You have asked me a trick question."
β Eliezer Yudkowsky, The Design Space of Minds-In-General
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β Cartography of Non-Human Cognitive Architectures β
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β β βββββββββ H.sapiens βββββββββββ β β
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β β ββββββββBiologicalβββββββββββββ β β
β β ββββββββββIntelligenceβββββββββ β β
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β β Cognitive βββββββββββ β β
β β Architecture βββββββββββββ β β
β β Complexity βββββββββββββββββ β β
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β β Bio β Simulator β AGI β ??? β β
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β β Compatibility βββββββββββ β β
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β β Human-like β Alien β β
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β β’ Vast majority of mindspace remains unmapped β
β β’ Distance from human-like cognition increases β
β exponentially in all directions β
β β’ Simulator-AI represents first confirmed contact with β
β truly alien cognitive architecture β
β β’ Most potential minds may be fundamentally β
β incomprehensible to human understanding β
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β [Expand] [Related: AI Taxonomy] [Mind Design Space] β
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