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Psychology science at it's current state is very unreliable, that it should never be trusted. (lemy.lol)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think that psychology is overrated science field as it's often very unreliable.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'll go further: until we develop a true, general artificial intelligence that is significantly superior to the human mind, psychology CAN NEVER be reliable.

It's just a basic principle of complexity. The human mind is, by definition, too complex to be reliably understood by another human mind. The system doing the understanding can't possibly comprehend an equally complex system to itself. I'm pretty sure that would LITERALLY VIOLATE MULTIPLE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS AND COMPUTATION.

The only sane course is to literally abandon the field. Any result we achieve, in terms of studying our ourselves, will always be too inaccurate to be useful, and almost invariably dangerous and harmful.

Our goal should be to finish building General Artificial Intelligence. Yes, I'm aware that it might decide to kill us. I'm okay with that. I actually prefer that outcome. I think we're a toxic species. I'm not a religious man, but I think it's no coincidence that almost all major religions agree that we're fundamentally and inextricably flawed.

The best thing we could do for the planet is to build a better, more intelligent race of beings, so we can then be killed off by them. Good riddance. But, ya know, they might analyze us really accurately, before sweeping us out of existence. That'd be kinda neat.