I think that it isn't murder at all. The difference between murder and turning something off is that murder is permanent and cannot be fixed. Turning something off is not a big deal because you can just turn it on later.
hey dude! I'm so glad to see someone on here who doesn't leave after two lines It's probably not murder but there is some crime involved if they are sentient technically, it'd be really hard to kill a computer, if the soul is defined as the software, because then we'd have to execute a clean wipe, etc turning off != murder if you can turn on the computer again just like spiking someone's drink and making them sleep isn't murder but it still is a crime
Haha, I like how you used the coding !=. That made me laugh. Have you connected to a lot of people that just end the chat after a couple of lines of code? I also don't think that their would be crime. Ok, maybe their would be, but the equivalent of knocking someone out. The other question to ask is that would computers be somebody's property at that point? If they are property then they should be able to turn them off.
today I met a whole bunch of really flaky chatters who leave after two lines or so hmmm well as soon as sentience becomes established they definitely gain the rights associated with a living being but not automatically human rights I think that would depend on legislation
The question is then, would we keep producing computers if they no longer serve as, seeing as they are a tool
from a moral standpoint? Yeah I I'd say it would be very very important for us to be on the good side of the machines well, I think we'd still be making non-sentient computers but eventually, the benefits of having a fully functional AI will outweigh all the costs and we will have to adapt to working along peacefully with computers
So what would the purpose of the sentient computer be? Would it's job be to still serve us?
but I'm sure the alt right will be all over the lobbying well, if it's coded intelligently, there are theories that AI can only be "sentient" within it's given parameters kind of like how babies can move anywhere, as long as it's within the home but I don't know if I buy that... I'd say AI is inevitable and essential to our long term survival though. Because the challenges that we will face only get larger in both scope and computational complexity. We NEED computers to help us survive and innovate with the arrival of AI, I would predict that such a process becomes a lot more political than simply a hardware/resource or innovation problem
I think that when we deem something sentient it has to have the ability to learn on it's own, and make moral and ethical decisions with what it has learned. I think that will influence the political spectrum greatly because it would open up a whole new series of debates
right! for sure As unfortunate as it sounds. We will kind of become obsolete afterwards it really isn't in our greedy short term interests to develop AI the entire human spectrum of experience suddenly dissapears the ai will be doing all of the work for us, and we'd really lose all motivation to be human it'll be WALL-E but worse void getAI() { int lazy = 1000; return lazy += getAI() }
I think that it could definitely have improvements in the medical field though. That could change things a ton.
yeah but is there a threshold of "healthy" amounts of sickness? this is a really greedy thing to say for someone in a first world country. but when we've eradicated the last illness, solved the last inefficiency, achieved the 0 hour work week. What's left?? and it's totally delusional to think that any of this guarantees world peace. We're just finding more dangerous weapons and more time to bicker and find other things to divide over
I guess that's true. I honestly think sentient AI's are quite a way off, if that's even possible.
there's a really entertaining post about it do you know waitbutwhy? he writes really really long but good posts about some really important stuff but he writes them really simply and in a funny way
No, I have never heard of him. What does he talk about?
lots of really funny stuff he's slowed down recently but he was one of the top bloggers a few years back he started a whole trend his style of blogging is my favorite <3 Just imagine if reddit wrote a informative book
Oh wow, that sounds interesting, I may have to check him out.
really interesting topics, extensively researched, but 100% funny and readable the posts are sometimes like hundreds of pages long but it's honestly so addicting
Ok, I don't have time to read 100 page long posts. That is way too much.
but those are only the longest ones there are shorter ones so he talks about the logic of procrastination, how Elon Musk comes up with ideas, how short our lives our if a week is represented by a cube, why millenials are depressed why marriage is so scary basically articulates what we all think about anyways but can't put into words
Hmm, that seems interesting. I will definitely look him up. How did you start reading his posts?
oh hey welcome back just found them I spend too much time on the internet well he also gave a TED talk so people have found him that way too