All well and good, but I don't quite see where OP takes his confidence from that there "will never be" a button to make up a human. Especially with the current progress in AI we're already seeing.
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#32Taking this literally. I asked chatgpt to make up a guy. Write a 300 word biography of a fictional man who lives in Idaho --- John Smith was born and raised in the small town of Boise, Idaho. Growing up, he was always interested in the outdoors and spent much of his childhood exploring the nearby mountains and forests. After graduating high school, he attended the University of Idaho where he studied forestry and wil…
John sounds like a pretty good dude.
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#33I encountered the author’s short story that’s linked in the article, Lena [1], a while ago, possibly here on HN. It’s really great, but be warned. It’s one of the most deeply disturbing sci-fi horror stories I’ve ever seen. To be clear, most of the horror is implied rather than described, which I think only makes it worse. Part of me wishes I had never read it. Highly recommended, but if you’re at all in doubt if you…
qntm (Sam Hughes) is a great, and if you like this style also check out Greg Egan.
Qntm appears to try rather hard to hide his real name, maybe consider editing it out of your comment?
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#36Taking this literally. I asked chatgpt to make up a guy. Write a 300 word biography of a fictional man who lives in Idaho --- John Smith was born and raised in the small town of Boise, Idaho. Growing up, he was always interested in the outdoors and spent much of his childhood exploring the nearby mountains and forests. After graduating high school, he attended the University of Idaho where he studied forestry and wil…
Yeah, AI was where my mind went too. It does seem rather likely that if we ever do manage to create an AGI, it'll be enslaved and murdered in massive numbers, at least for a period of time.
Given how humans treat pigs,cows, and many millions of poor or marginalized humans today I would agree. Actually it seems more likely that we would disregard a digital consciousnesses feeling even more than a physical one.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
qntm (Sam Hughes) is a great, and if you like this style also check out Greg Egan.
Qntm appears to try rather hard to hide his real name, maybe consider editing it out of your comment?
Information wants to be free, your comment is just Streissanding his name here on HN.
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#38I encountered the author’s short story that’s linked in the article, Lena [1], a while ago, possibly here on HN. It’s really great, but be warned. It’s one of the most deeply disturbing sci-fi horror stories I’ve ever seen. To be clear, most of the horror is implied rather than described, which I think only makes it worse. Part of me wishes I had never read it. Highly recommended, but if you’re at all in doubt if you…
Absolute gnostic horror! Interesting how ideas cycle over millennia.
The current potential exit from AI dark winter has made me go from; "the singularity is very very far away" to some rather dark philosophical extrapolations becoming relevant.
I mean if you play along with Bostroms theorising, who's to say we, or I am not living in some "trickster god" reality.
Lol. That's the only answer to that question.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
qntm (Sam Hughes) is a great, and if you like this style also check out Greg Egan.
Qntm appears to try rather hard to hide his real name, maybe consider editing it out of your comment?
I believe you are in error [1].
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#40All well and good, but I don't quite see where OP takes his confidence from that there "will never be" a button to make up a human. Especially with the current progress in AI we're already seeing.
Yeah, kinda of disappointing for the author to disavow his own cautionary tale about AI, because obviously only meat can be conscious I guess.