[Link] Tim Crane on Animal Minds
post by Jayson_Virissimo · 2011-12-09T09:22:35.032Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 1 commentsThe Philosophy Bites for 11/20/2011 features Tim Crane on the the cognitive capabilities of animals (specifically, monkeys and apes). Here is a direct link to the MP3 file. This is relevant to Less Wrong, since it is possible that other apes are analogous to humans as humans will be to early AGI.
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comment by amcknight · 2011-12-09T19:48:25.647Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
it is possible that other apes are analogous to humans as humans will be to early AGI.
Can you (or anyone else here) think of a reason this might happen? Seems to me that an AGI will be wildly different from any life form we know of, including ourselves, unless we careful design it not to be.