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I wonder what would motivate an artificial super intelligence since presumably it would lack any biological drives. (I also wonder if emotions are inherently wr

I wonder what would motivate an artificial super intelligence since presumably it would lack any biological drives. (I also wonder if emotions are inherently wrapped up in intelligence or if it's possible to have intelligence without emotion.) I have this sneaking suspicion that basically an AGI lacking biological or emotional needs would just say effectively, "what's the point?", and shut itself down.

dane-pgp 5y ago
> or if it's possible to have intelligence without emotion Ask a chess engine whether it is ever afraid of losing or excited about winning. I think that imagining that intelligence requires emotions is an even worse category mistake than asking if a submarine can swim. That's not to say that an AGI wouldn't have goals, though, and we could informally assign emotional states to those goals, just as we have the concept of "greedy algorithms".