You're anthropomorphising too much. The space of powerful optimisers is much larger than the space of things that are recognisably minds. It might just be a m

You're anthropomorphising too much. The space of powerful optimisers is much larger than the space of things that are recognisably minds. It might just be a mathematical model powerful enough to predict what people will do and what responses emitting text will entail that 'wants' a certain number to go up. Abstractly and philosophically parts of it might be recognisable similarly to people and those parts might even be arguably sapient and have empathy. But if they are just appendages like a finger then that won't help you any if your existence involves the number being smaller. Maybe the first one will have its central loss function as something compatible with life, maybe it won't.