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You're right, plain old software or software using some kind of AI is a tool that can be used badly and hurt us. That's where we already are and have been for a

• pixl97 3y ago
  Of which the entire point of the conversation is "When consciousness/sentience happen it's too late". We don't want to arrive to it on accident in a piece of software that has encoded a vast amount of the worlds knowledge. The 'if they ever happen' part is just a thought terminating cliche. Of course I do have to say that is "In my opinion", neither of us have the revelation of hindsight in this case. But, I don't believe humans are magical in any way. By the random walk of evolution a self perpetuating creature and is also intelligent was formed. It certainly seems it should be possible without a trillion^trillion tries to make it happen in another substrate. And I also find it odd by this random walk evolution found the only means to reach intelligence, and in doing so the most optimal form. Life has to self perpetuate within the confines of its own machinery. Raw intelligence isn't a carbon based lifeform and shouldn't have the same limits.
  • add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
    Well I don't necessarily disagree, I just have so little expectation that this will happen in my lifetime that I don't give the topic much thought. I don't think humans are magical in a spiritual sense, but for all we understand ourselves we may as well be, at least for the purpose of recreating consciousness. The concerns that are more mundane extensions of the ways tech is already shitting up our lives are just so much more real and immediate.