alt Hacker NewsHumans still havent't accepted The Bitter Lesson[1].
Compute > Insight. Every time.
We can keep searching for essential human characteristics that humans have and AI lacks, but every attempt increasingly resembles an ego-preserving negotiation with the inevitable march. It's reminiscent of the God of the Gaps[2], but for human exceptionalism. As AI competency encroaches on more and more of human ability, we'll retreat into smaller and smaller gaps - foxholes of inimitablity.
As long as human value is justified by ability, quality, or characteristic, this problem will endure. The one escape hatch is the classical liberal idea that human value isn't tied to anything, that, by virtue of being human, people have universal, inalienable worth.
We should stop the project to attempting to substantiate human value by other means.