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I cannot not respond to this comment. Forgive me if I seem short in tone. Maybe we should be helping people develop richer inner lives instead of pouring billi

I cannot not respond to this comment. Forgive me if I seem short in tone. Maybe we should be helping people develop richer inner lives instead of pouring billions of dollars into something that may or may not pan out in the future. I assert it'd be vastly cheaper, would raise GDP overall, and improve well-being. Where we're at collectively right now is...not great, and I think people correctly perceive that their problems, which are real and significant, are theirs alone to suffer with, while the world chases the current white whale.

thomassmith65 2y ago
My comment actually doesn't say anything positive about the billions of dollars pouring into AI, etc. It's not that humanity has some obligation to create AI. It's that humanity has an obligation not to create an AI whose wellbeing we ignore because it's "not a real person"
- blacksmith_tb 2y ago
  I hope so - a moral obligation. It seems interesting that the Vatican didn't really touch on the implication of a truly sentient AI (not that I think we're close to creating one, but it seems possible). I suspect it would pose awkward questions about whether it would then have a soul, could convert, etc. Anyhow it struck me a surprising omission in what is otherwise a thorough and mostly sensible discussion of the pitfalls of the path we're taking.