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> I dont understand, why any highly sophisticated AI should invest that much resources to kill us Well you see, everyone knows The Terminator and The Matrix an
by michaelt 2y ago
> I dont understand, why any highly sophisticated AI should invest that much resources to kill us
Well you see, everyone knows The Terminator and The Matrix and Frankenstein and The Golem of Prague and Rossum's Universal Robots.
All of which share a theme: the sinful hubris of playing god and trying to create life will inevitably lead to us being struck down by the very being we created.
In parallel, all the members of our educated classes have received philosophy education saying "utilitarianism says it's good to reduce total human suffering, but technically if you eliminated all humans there would be no suffering any more, ha ha obviously that's a reductio ad absurdum to show a weakness of utilitarianism please don't explode the world"
And so in the Western cultural tradition, and especially among the sort of people who call themselves futurists Arnold Schwarzenegger firing a minigun is the defining image of AI.
- ben_w 2y agoI wouldn't categorise The Matrix or Frankenstein like that. The Matrix had humanity under control, but the machines had no desire to eliminate humanity, the machines just wanted to live — humans kept on fighting the machines even when the machines gave humanity an experiential paradise to live in. Frankenstein is harder because of how the book differs from the films. Your point it is valid because it is about the cultural aspects and I expect more have seen one of the films than to have read/listened to the book — but in the book, Adam was described as beautiful in every regard save for his eyes, he was a sensitive, emotional vegetarian, and he only learned anger after being consistently shown hatred and violence by absolutely everyone he ever met except that one who was blind.