Senate Ctrl+Alt+Kill The Artificial Intelligence Thread

I knew there had to be some cynical reason for it.

Yeah, even the more optimistic futurists see any upload as basically just a duplication, meaning the original would still be around (so you'd either have two, or you'd be agreeing to kill yourself so you duplicate wouldn't be worried with the ethics of it).

 

Okay, wait. How is transhumanism an "exciting" outcome? This is reason enough for me to run through these facilities with high-powered magnets.

 

ChatGPT is already wreaking havoc in my workplace.

 

How so?

 

Once having been a strict reductionist, I have seen enough emerging evidence of the possible quantum aspects of consciousness to no longer rigidly believe that our minds are simply an epi-phenomenon as a result of the electrico-chemical impulses of our brains. A lot more work has to be done, but there is credible evidence now that consciousness persists at least several minutes after death, which directly contradicts the idea that our minds simply emerge from matter.

Aw come on, don’t you want to be a Cylon?

 

Colons are honorable because they are not human. Putting people in robot bodies is abominable.

 

At the massive 'modernization project' at work, when the crunch came down the first thing to get jettisoned was the Chatbot.

I presume this is your prudish way of referring to people having robot sex

 

What type of colons are we talking about here?

 

I'd like to see some of this evidence. I will dismiss the part about "consciousness persists at least several minutes after death" as people have been revived hours after what is called brain death, which means I means of establishing said death need some work.

 

Not sure, I understand what you’re asking. To clarify my points:

If consciousness is purely an epi-phenomenon, both thought and the ability to form memories should cease upon cessation of life processes. Cognitive processing and forming memories are the most metabolically expensive activities in which the brain engages; once the heart stops and blood pressure falls to zero, the brain removes all remaining oxygen from blood still in the vessels within the cranium within a maximum of five seconds. Neurons begin to dysfunction immediately. They do not die, but they begin to. Yet somewhere around 12 million people in the world over have reported conscious experiences following cardiac arrest. This certainly is not evidence in the classical sense, but it does raise questions and should be investigated.

In regards to people being revived “hours after brain death”, I think we may mean different things here. Brain death is a state in which there is no detectable activity on an electroencephalogram, and requires two physicians to make a final pronunciation. People have been revived after several hours after clinical death, which is the absence of all vital signs, but this usually only occurs under extraordinary circumstances that involve a substantial lowering of body temperature. Not sure that I agree with your claim about “brain death” being reversible after several hours.

In regards to evidence, I am referring mostly to the work of Dr. Sam Parnia, an ICU physician in New York City who has spent years studying the phenomenon of experiences surrounding patients who’ve suffered cardiac arrest. While I doubt it would satisfy what you’re looking for, the fact that a human being can think and perceive in the absence of detectable life processes using our current technology is provocative and raises serious questions about pure epiphenominalism. That being said, I am in no way pointing towards a supernatural explanation, merely stating that our knowledge is incomplete, and that consciousness may be more complex than just the electrochemical processes within and between the brain’s neurons.

 

Robinson. He’s an energy vampire you see.

 

Ah yes Donald Trump famous friend to black America.

 

I mean there's just gonna be loads more of this .