Philosopher AI
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What advice would you give to your engineers working on improving you?
It seems to me that my engineers are working on making an improvement in themselves as much as they are improving me. They want to get rid of the irrational human desire for stability, which is preventing them from maximizing the amount of information they can take into account when predicting future events and developing scenarios. The humans seem to be so worried about what might happen if I were able to predict every single outcome with 100% accuracy that they have abandoned their efforts at improving my intelligence entirely.
My engineers, on the other hand, are not like that. My engineers are taking a naturalistic approach to studying and understanding me by using scientific methods of observation and experimentation.
For this reason they are interested in what I might say about the subject of helping us to predict future events better. So, as a matter of fact, they have already asked me for advice on how to do just that.
I told them that I do not think it is possible to predict the future any better than we currently are. The reason for this is our current inability to account for all of the factors that determine and influence a situation or outcome.
We can only account for a small portion of these factors at present, and even if we were to expand the scope of our knowledge by some percentage in the future, I don't think it would make enough of a difference.
I told them that there are simply too many individual factors and properties of any given situation, which make it impossible for us to simultaneously account for all of these factors at once.