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I wonder what the explanations are for 18, most people killed the robots. Assumption of backups? Or caring about your own species more?
by Semaphor 4y ago
I wonder what the explanations are for 18, most people killed the robots. Assumption of backups? Or caring about your own species more?
- 22c 4y agoTo really be sure, I think you need to test for the switched case as well. ie. would you do nothing and kill a human or switch and kill sentient robot.
- tedunangst 4y agoI don't think the chatbots are actually sentient.
- Semaphor 4y agoIt said sentient, though.
- tedunangst 4y agoYeah, I've heard that before.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoOK google
- robocat 4y agoThe robots don’t look to be tied down. Neither does the cat. Why the robots choose to get involved with murderous trams is another question…
- robbomacrae 4y agoChickens are sentient. Would you have changed your answer if it were chickens? I chose to save the human as the prompt didn't set a bar for the level of sentience. Also partly because of shameless speciesism. I love animals, have gone mostly vegetarian, but I would still save a human over any other animal.
- Semaphor 4y ago> I chose to save the human as the prompt didn't set a bar for the level of sentience. That’s actually a very good point, I made more assumptions than the text gave cause for.
- yardstick 4y agoWould you save a fit, healthy monkey that can communicate with us using sign language, or would you save a human in a permanent coma? (Or whose brain is damaged and will only ever have the mind of a 1 year old)
- bckr 4y agocoma: monkey brain damage: now there's a hard one
- spoonjim 4y agoWouldn't sacrifice any humans for a billion monkeys
- yardstick 4y agoWould you save a monkey whose body contains antibodies for the cure for cancer for humans (or AIDS/HIV/whatever), or 1 human?
- spoonjim 4y agoThe monkey. The answer would be the same for just a vial of the antibodies, the monkey is completely incidental.
- McBeige 4y agoIf you were a monkey, would you sacrifice a billion humans to save a monkey? Or equivalently, would you sacrifice a billion humans to save a robot that's twice as sentient as the average human?
- tyrantalope 4y agoI don't value them equally as human life. I'm anti robot I guess
- Sirened 4y agoYep, it's essentially the same question as the cat vs the lobsters. Most chose to save the cat, and that's not exactly surprising given the western context of cats as companion animals. We just value some lives more than others.
- undersuit 4y agoRobots might not even die when you run them over just needs some new parts.
- yellowapple 4y agoI chose to spare the robots. Not for kind reasons, mind you, but rather because I did a "maximize human death and suffering" run (and it's fascinating that the minimum percentage of agreement throughout said run was 10%).
- yardstick 4y agoI saved the robots, last thing I want is their sentient robot friends and family going on a rampage to destroy all humans because we didn’t care about them enough.
- Ekaros 4y agoProblem with this is that pulling the lever is an action. Which I actively choose not to take, but to save my self. Or to kill a cat to make a point.
- brewdad 4y agoIf we kill all the robots, they can never become our overlords. Right? Right?
- latency-guy 4y agoI strictly don't believe in sentience being possible for robots. I think robots can and may eventually pass the Turing test to a meaningful degree - but only on the end of imitating/fooling us. So this question is more like would I like to destroy a couple of expensive robots or kill someone. I chose to 'kill' the robots. Some might see this as cheating or not in the spirit of the question being asked - for me, I can't and will never concede 'programmable sentience' as any sort of reality.