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Ask HN: Even with AGI, it wouldn't know what you know. Can we preserve that?

1•consumer451•6mo ago
Even if we had true AGI today, even if that AGI attained top .001% human-level intelligence as a product, that product would still not have your experiences and knowledge of a given project or domain. It could not replace you.

That AGI didn't experience what you have experienced. How could it without recording all of your audio and visual input?

Clearly, I am not the first person to think of this concept. My question: is it important for us to fight the inevitable attempt at capture of all our audio/visual existence? Or, is this a Luddite concept in 2025?

Comments

bigyabai•6mo ago
In all likelihood, you individually do not live an interesting or successful enough life to be good training data. Data brokers would probably struggle to sell AI companies your personal data.
consumer451•6mo ago
My post, which is likely not clear, is not about training models. It is about an AI product which could replace everything that your brain does. Not just work, but all of your decision making [0].

If all of your work and knowledge is done via text like Slack or Email, or via transcribed online meetings, then this seems relatively easy in the long term. That problem is not that hard, conceptually. However, it would still not know some anecdote that you heard over beers from someone else, which is how multiple AI concepts were discovered.

If we continue that idea, not just work, but to offload all our our thinking, a virtual you, it would require from birth A/V data capture, right?

[0] The reason that this came up in my mind is that today I presented a new LLM-enabled feature in my SaaS product, to my beta users. One user quickly and unironically, responded "This is awesome! I don't have to use my brain for this anymore!" This scared the crap out of me, and my post here is the generalization of this idea.

alganet•6mo ago
I don't understand what you are saying.

Is it some elaboration on "It's useless, humans are better, therefore stop trying to collect data?".

If it is, it is more of an assertion than a question. Those are rather common, and there isn't much to say about them.

If it's not, you should express your doubts better. Explain in detail where you're coming from.

consumer451•6mo ago
Sorry, some people drink beers and message their ex's. I apparently post poorly written Ask HN's.

My original thought here was: chill out everyone! Even if we had AGI, even ASI today... neither of those systems could know everything that you have seen, heard, dreamed, or thought. They cannot truly replace you... unless all audio, video, and eventually neuro signals in your lifetime are recorded. This is really important, as all of those things influence you to make the decisions that you make. This is what makes you unique, and important.

Then the next thought was... is that something worth fighting against? Or, should I welcome my individually trained technological replacement?

When I was talking about this with a co-worker earlier today, the thought occurred: this is not only the final frontier of privacy, but of individuality.

alganet•6mo ago
You're looking for a fight. There's nothing regarding individuality in that.
consumer451•6mo ago
> You're looking for a fight.

Not at all. That is not my style. I am looking for a discussion.

> There's nothing regarding individuality in that.

I must have miscommunicated.

If you are to be truly replaced by an AI agent, how is that not the loss of individuality? A drop-in AI clone of everything that you could do, would imply the loss of individuality, would it not? How could it not?

pulvinar•6mo ago
I'm not understanding this either.

It should be no more a loss of your individuality than if you were replaced at your job by another equally capable human worker. Of course they wouldn't have _your_ experience, they'd have their own.

And likewise for the AGI.

alganet•6mo ago
You're looking for "something to fight for", the discussion is just a way of doing that. Your a person that has a fight, you need to have it.

I'm not that, so I can't understand your argument. I don't need to have something to fight for to have meaning in life, to understand justice, to have feelings. I can do it without belonging to a group, or having an agenda.

In other words, I will not join your quest.