the universal solution of IT: restart your computer although in all actuality I think I would want to figure out why I was being asked before I made any such action
I think I'm too much of a softie and would ask my computer why it doesn't want to be turned off Although, it would freak me out a little Would you say you're someone who is more fearful of artificial intelligence, or optimistic about it? I would say I'm more of an optimistic person, but I find a lot of people aren aren't*
oh just saw your reply well you'd probably have to consider me somewhere inbetween
Please explain
without any doubt a superintelligent AI could wipe us out will do and just about any task you can assign an AI it has to consider the possibility that humans pose a threat and so if it is created with a purpose it is essentially guaranteed to wipe out humanity but I guess the question that would make me an outlier is whether or no *not that would be such a bad thing
Do you think its a bad thing?
I'm not sure if the AI carries on our values then I think that it coul be considered an upgrade but if it is set on maximi sing paperclips that would be unfortunate sorry about the random breaks in my messages my mouse has problems
That's kind of where I'm at too, but I think we could avoid the situation entirely if we just merged with technology before it got to smart to wipe us out haha no problem
haha thanks and yeah that's essentially my positions as well and the path I want to take in the future neuralink for the win
YEAH
although I must admit that recently i've lost my enchantment with ol' musky
At what point do you think we become more machine than human though?
hmmm
yeah he's a little kooky right now
well, it really begs the question of what it means to be human true that does being human mean having human dna? or something more?
The question of every sci-fi story ever I think its something more
honestyly haha whoops typo yeah me too have you seen the show "humans'?
I couldn't say what it is though no i haven't whats it about?
honestly me neither it's about a group of conscious AI humanoid robots
Where do you watch it?
essentially the world has slaves called "synths" that look like humans umm Amazon Prime I think I watched it with my grandparents so I don't actually have access to it haha but yeah, essentially they have robots that do a lot of work for them and theres all sorts of ethical questions going on
mooching internet subscriptions is a totally acceptable thing to do haha
haha, agreed capitlism is all about wage theft anyway, what's a little piracy going to harm? (just kidding)
Does it give any profound insight into what it means to be human?
ummmm I'm trying to think one of them is a fan of nietzsche (is that how you spell it?)
i think so
and goes on little philosophical rants about suffering and whatnot okay good haha also random tangent do you ever think about the fact that if an AGI ever goes online they very well will read through just about everything humanity ever wrote? eve probably isn't going to take over the world
Nah, eve won't last one second
but it's kind of cool to imagine that we might contribute to the thought process of something that will change the world in that way yeah haha I like the name though
not compared to any other malicious AI's at least
Wall-E was my favourite movie as a kid
That would be cool
yeah, I'm curious to see what she ends up as though
I just rewatched it the other day. Great movie
it would be haha, yeah definitely evaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa wall-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Have you ever seen Blade Runner?  You seem like the type of person who would like it
I actually haven't I know a little about it The profound question do androids dream of electric sheep?
It says a lot about the profound question exactly
yeah, I want to watch the movie but more importantly, read the book
Oh I gotta do that I It's supposed to be really good
in the case of scifi classics the book is almost always better I hope so haha
Are you a big sci fi fan?
yeah, especially when i was younger (although plenty of fantasy mixed in)
Same haha
thanks to the internet i no longer have the attention span to stick to a book for very long I read a few pages and then have a dire question
I never even started reading really I'm more of a movie guy unfortunately
look it up, and go down a full rabbit hole
Oh I do that all the time
oh, movies are an art of their own though haha, yeah wikipedia is the worst and by worst i mean best (((right-click new-tab))) 60 tabs later...
Honestly, I just looked up nietzsche and nearly abandoned this conversation haha
haha, can't blame you he has some interesting things to say but he was also a bit of a quack i think he said something along the lines of "women are god's second greatest mistake"
Sounds like a great guy
I read that and realised that mustache wasn't the only thing that kept him single (honestly i dont know if he was actually single) im going to check real quickly
Don't fall in the wikipedia hole hah
too late haha just kidding rip nietzsche he proposed three times to the same person and got rejected every time
OUCH
that boi died as single as a pringle
He's probably in good company at BYU
hahahahaha
just kidding, that's mean haha my bad
roasted so you're another byu student what's your major? cs?
me
me
Mech. Eng
(fun fact memes were invented by richard dawkins) oh cool
you?
CS
Nice
yeah, I wan't to do machine learning for direct neural interfaces so that i can
I had a roomate who took it and it sounds fascinating
t r a n s c e n d
haha
oh yeah?
Anyways, I gotta eat dinner
i take that to mean this isn't your first year oh okay haha i'll leave you to it
Great conversation! good luck.