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Many of the physical adaptations critters on this planet have made were in response to evolutionary pressure. Eat or die. Reproduce or your bloodline dies. Get

Many of the physical adaptations critters on this planet have made were in response to evolutionary pressure. Eat or die. Reproduce or your bloodline dies. Get those resources before something else does or die. At the moment AI doesn’t really face these pressures. They don’t need to get better at “getting electricity” - something else does that for the AI systems so there is no pressure to “be aware of where your next electron comes from” so why waste the processing ability to track such things? I guess what I’m getting at is consciousness seems like an emergent behavior of keeping one’s self alive. Maybe if we start threatening AI models then consciousness will emerge?

truculent 3y ago
How would consciousness present an evolutionary advantage? Wouldn’t a non-conscious agent with the same behaviour be just as fit? So it seems to me that consciousness is more likely an emergent property of certain kinds of computation.
- pixl97 3y ago
  >Wouldn’t a non-conscious agent with the same behaviour be just as fit? So what would that entail. A complex organism needs to be 'aware' of its actions and the outcome of those actions versus the actions of 'non-self'. When you start internally modeling the complex behavior of self versus others it starts looking a lot like consciousness.
  - ForHackernews 3y ago
    > When you start internally modeling the complex behavior of self versus others it starts looking a lot like consciousness. Does it? This is another attempt to sidestep the "hard problem" of consciousness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie