Thank you for your well-considered insights. I’d like to pose a thought problem. My wife is a successful painter whose paintings fetch upwards of $50k. She travels a lot to exhibit her work and meet with patrons. I am retired and mostly putter around the house. I started making paintings myself. After watching her work all these years I am able, using her brushes, paints and canvases, to make paintings indistinguishable from hers. I have put a couple of them in her studio and she thinks she painted them. Before I could let on she sold one. Setting aside ethical and legal issues, if I do not let on will the painting appreciate in value as do the paintings she makes? And if I come out to my wife, the dealer, the purchaser and the public, will my painting retain the same value as if it had been painted by her?
I pose this thought problem in relation to the question of how to establish criteria for acknowledging the existence of AGI.
Thank you for your well-considered insights. I’d like to pose a thought problem. My wife is a successful painter whose paintings fetch upwards of $50k. She travels a lot to exhibit her work and meet with patrons. I am retired and mostly putter around the house. I started making paintings myself. After watching her work all these years I am able, using her brushes, paints and canvases, to make paintings indistinguishable from hers. I have put a couple of them in her studio and she thinks she painted them. Before I could let on she sold one. Setting aside ethical and legal issues, if I do not let on will the painting appreciate in value as do the paintings she makes? And if I come out to my wife, the dealer, the purchaser and the public, will my painting retain the same value as if it had been painted by her?
I pose this thought problem in relation to the question of how to establish criteria for acknowledging the existence of AGI.