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I find it funny how when no one has the faintest idea of what consciousness is, people feel they can already make predictions when and how machines will become
by placebo 12y ago
I find it funny how when no one has the faintest idea of what consciousness is, people feel they can already make predictions when and how machines will become conscious and state with confidence that when that happens it will be a bad thing.
I have no idea if or when machines will become conscious nor the effects that this consciousness might have on mankind (and no one else has any idea either, regardless of their fame), but if AI does become conscious, then considering the appalling record of misery caused by human consciousness, perhaps it's time we gave the machines a chance...
- cubetime 12y agoConsciousness has next-to-nothing to do with AI safety. People are concerned about software that acts like an agent, not software that has qualia.
- placebo 12y agoWhile that (AI safety) is something that definitely should be taken care of, I find it has next to nothing to do with the type of rhetoric often cited in the media
- unfamiliar 12y agoHuman consciousness has evolved naturally, and sits in some kind of local equilibrium with all of its rough edges for the most part buffed off. Who knows what kind of unbearable existence a purely artificial intelligence would experience. Just like communism versus religion -- the artificial and logical versus the organic and ancient -- I would imagine any sentience created from scratch by us is more than likely to be deeply pathological.