/lit/ - Literature

>>15603667
My take is that capitalism's "purpose" or, in AI terms, its objective function, is the aggregate objective functions of all market forces and agents, all of them seeking profit. Whether it's a linear combination of them or whatever other function of them, I don't know, it's probably a time-dependant non-linear function which combines all of them. I couldn't tell you what that objective function looks like, but I can tell you that it's clearly morally blind, humanity having to impose moral regulations as bounds in its search space (no child labour, no slavery, etc). It's intelligent, but remember the orthogonality hypothesis (presented in a neat video by Rob Miles): goals and intelligence are original. You can have a very intelligent AI like capitalism but goals that make no sense to us. Of course humans would like to eliminate poverty. Capitalism's goal may clash with that, it may not be in its interest and it isn't any less intelligent because of that. I may go with Nick Land on this one and say that capitalism's objective function, the non-linear aggregation of market agents' maximizing profits, is the coming upon of the singularity.