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Most discussions about AI, especially AGI, suffer from what Whitehead would call the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness. That is, people assume that Intelligence is something concrete existing in Nature that can be easily pointed to and described. Instead, we have a broad range of definitions covering various bundles of human and/or computer capabilities.
By contrast, discussions about industrial robots, including drones and autonomous cars, are usually much more productive because their roles are well specified in terms of tasks and accomplishments.

This is my new meditation song. As the ancients believed, chanting prayers/poems in their original form, even if you don't understand them, carries a greater power than a translation.




Iz di goldene pave gefloygn, gefloygn.
Un di nakht hot geefnet di goldene oygn,
Likhtiker mayner, shlof ayn.

Di nakht hot geefnet di goldene oygn,
Bin ikh fidl gevorn un du der boygn,
Umruiker mayner, shlof ayn.

Bin ikh fidl gevorn un du der boygn,
Un doz glik iber undz hot farlibt zikh geboygn,
Tsertlekher mayner, shlof ayn.

Un dos glik iber undz hot farlibt zikh geboygn,
Gelozt undz aleyn un farfloygn, farfloygn,
Troyeriker mayner, shlof ayn.


--- Anna Margolin (1887 - 1952)

This one of the clearest natural illustration for the concept of throwness.