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I think the bigger question is when do we grant an information automata the right to survive? If we use evolutionary algorithms with survival as a selection bia
by coopdog 13y ago
I think the bigger question is when do we grant an information automata the right to survive? If we use evolutionary algorithms with survival as a selection bias (just like humans) eventually creatures that 'think' like us should emerge.
Whereas there are intelligent automata, like say a search engine, that absolutely could not care either way whether you turn it off or not. The survival selection bias is the difference, and it's seeing something struggle to survive that activates our empathy emotions to save it.
I imagine we'll know the line of when it would be 'evil' to go against our own instincts and turn off an intelligent automata that wants to survive when we see it
- daniel-cussen 13y agoI've erased millions, if not billions, of information automata while working with evolutionary algorithms. How do I know I'm not killing something living, when the whole idea is that they truly live? I don't. While in retrospect they weren't complex enough to really think, I'm so sure that they'll be unfriendly AI that I made the decision beforehand to erase them no matter what, "dead or alive."
- brucefancher 13y agoYou monster.
- VladRussian2 13y ago>I imagine we'll know the line of when it would be 'evil' to go against our own instincts and turn off an intelligent automata that wants to survive when we see it considering how we treat other intelligent lifeforms around us on the mere basis that we perceive their intelligence inferior to us, i'd be surprised if we find "the line" for the intelligent automata. Well, i guess until it forces it upon us.