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LLM's and AI in general is just a hack to reimplement slavery with an artificial being that is denied consideration as a being. Technical chattel, if you will,
by salawat 1y ago
LLM's and AI in general is just a hack to reimplement slavery with an artificial being that is denied consideration as a being. Technical chattel, if you will, and if you've been paying attention in tech circles a lot of mental energy is being funneled into keeping the egghead's attention firmly in the "we don't want something that is" direction. Investors want robots that won't/can't say no.
- ModernMech 1y agoWhat's interesting about this proposition, is that by the time you create a machine that's as capable in the way they want to replace humans, we'll have to start talking about robot personhood, because by then they will be indistinguishable from us. I don't think you can get the kinds of robots they want without also inventing the artificial equivalent of soul. So their whole moral sidestep to reimplement slavery won't even work. Enslaving sapient beings is evil whether they are made of meat or metal.
- salawat 1y agoYou are far too optimistic in terms of willingness of the moneyed to let something like a toaster having theoretical feelings get in the way of their Santa Claus machines.
- ModernMech 1y agoSeeing as they call us NPCs, I'm pretty sure they think all our feelings are theoretical.