This is one of my favorite books and it's fun to read for anyone interested in the AI consciousness debate. <a href="https://hpmorpodcast.com/blindsided-00-announcement/" rel="nofollow">https://hpmorpodcast.com/blindsided-00-announcement/ is a podcast that read the book last year. And <a href="https://blindsight.space/" rel="nofollow">https://blindsight.space/ is a Watts' approved website that has a short film/movie trailer for the book.
The marginal / ancillary discussion of the usefulness of people in a post GAI world was really interesting. The best part of this discussion was that the protagonists entire job is to translate ideas that are too hard to understand into a tangible/actionalbe "surface area". Essentially - a policy-maker interface that treats superintelligence as a "black box".
I have an excerpt of the book explaining this here: <a href="https://jodavaho.io/posts/books-blindsight.html" rel="nofollow">https://jodavaho.io/posts/books-blindsight.html
The discussion about non-conscious intelligence was less so (I see ants every day!). But this is a new idea dense book to say the least - if you love worldbuilding, please pick it up.
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I have an excerpt of the book explaining this here: <a href="https://jodavaho.io/posts/books-blindsight.html" rel="nofollow">https://jodavaho.io/posts/books-blindsight.html
The discussion about non-conscious intelligence was less so (I see ants every day!). But this is a new idea dense book to say the least - if you love worldbuilding, please pick it up.