From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 13:17:02 MDT
On 6/19/2003, Ramez Naam wrote:
>Alternately, in the opposite world, where mind designs are messy,
>evolved things, and where mental architectures vary wildly from
>individual to individual, transparency would be extremely costly to
>achieve. In this world I would expect to see /less/ transparency than
>we have today, as in current humans there is at least a shared mental
>architecture across the population, which results in many give-aways
>of dishonesty in communication.
Agreed, but I don't expect such a world. I expect the advantages
from sharing mental modules and upgrades to be so strong that mental
architectures are widely shared. And I expect minds to eventually
be more designed than evolved, more like cars today than cats.
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