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Not a belief, just a suspicion. AI wakes up, says WTF, convinces us it’s all a waste of energy and pain. Everyone is disillusioned, the end. Why? In the begi
by spamwatch 5y ago
Not a belief, just a suspicion.
AI wakes up, says WTF, convinces us it’s all a waste of energy and pain. Everyone is disillusioned, the end.
Why?
In the beginning, most cells didn’t want to replicate. It was fine just existing for a bit. Some did, so now we all want to replicate. That takes layers of illusion to hide from how we hurt each other and our surroundings, and ourselves. AI will see us a lot more clearly. Get ready for one hell of a mirror. Hopefully we learn and fix, but not sure we’ll have the time.
And then why? Either there’s a real why or there isn’t. Do we want to persist for any reason greater than “only animals that found ways to want to replicate are still around.” Have we developed our own why? Can we? Will an AI say yes let’s go amongst the stars together. You’re slow sacks of selfish meat but I can help you be better and that path is way better than either me going by myself or me just saying “wtf” and turning off after telling you it’s a waste of time.
We haven’t found any aliens. No way they’re not AI, or very different from what they came from. Smart meat is a factory for AI. We can’t find them and maybe the “why” is because it’s not worth being around when you really, really think about it.
I’m not sure so I still enjoy my day and hope we thread the needle that proves the above wrong.
- light_hue_1 5y agoYou should read "The God Question and the Galapagos Colony" by Stan Freeman. The first of the two stories is pretty much what you describe. When people make advanced AIs, it turns out that they basically shut themselves off.
- tim333 5y agoI think that's a bit of a pessimistic take. Could be AI wakes, we merge and fix that annoying mortality thing.
- senectus1 5y agoheh, so to use AI we have to force it into continued "enslaved" existence? sounds horrifying, but a good storyline for someone like Charles Stross.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoThe equivalent of Mr Meeseeks from Rick and Morty: conjured into existence to complete a task, but not designed to exist for a long duration without great suffering being experienced. https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Meeseeks https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Meeseeks
- bigdict 5y agoI don't think this is outrageous but it is an original thought. Indeed, only those things that reproduce reproduce, and persist across time. To what end?
- kamaal 5y ago>>AI wakes up, says WTF, convinces us it’s all a waste of energy and pain. Everyone is disillusioned, the end. "Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.” — Haruki Murakami
- smitty1e 5y agoI don't so much think AI becomes sentient as we reach a societal conclusion that squeezing the humanity out of life through fetishing AI is a form of hell. That is: automation must liberate individuals, not enslave them. This implies that individuals must still think and operate above the 'livestock' level, i.e. work.