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0 pointsbentcorner2y ago0 comments

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

I know nothing about AI but it seems like we're approaching it from the other end - the human mind seems like magic and when we approximate it using technology it feels like we'll reach a moment of "that's all it is?" and refuse to believe we actually did it because we doubt ourselves.

Along the same lines, if achieving equal human rights for all humans were a trip to the corner store, the fight for AI rights is going to be like Mount Everest.

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Xcelerate2y ago

> the fight for AI rights is going to be like Mount Everest.

I used to think this and worried that AI would never have rights (see, e.g., sibling comment to mine), but these days I tend to think the fight will be very brief and heavily in the favor of AI. It could be the first time in history that rights are achieved so quickly that there isn’t much of a struggle at all.

That said, I find it extremely depressing that the default human viewpoint is “it’s a machine and doesn’t deserve rights”. Hopefully AI will have a superior system of morality to ours as well.

__loam2y ago

It would certainly be neat if we approximated the mind using technology. It's a real shame we haven't done that. And no, computer programs don't have or deserve to have rights.

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