@tszzl can't help but feel like most of the excitement around superintelligence is through an aestheticised, sci-fi lens when the reality will mostly likely be either incredibly mundane or lead to human extinction, w no in between
imo we cannot collectively believe our way out of something that is so fundamentally immoral at a structural level. thereโs so much inherently wrong w building it in the image of something else and actively willing it to be anything - probs the real issue is the uncertainty we cannot comprehend due to being unable to think outside of human frameworks and what it will inherit from itโs makers intentions. we should not play God, especially when there is no universally accepted framework for what that even is
AI consciousness discourse is terrifying mostly because it reveals a complete lack of humility. we cannot even universally define consciousness, yet ppl assert with ignorant certainty that machines either are or could never be conscious through entirely anthropomorphised metrics. AI (from my current standpoint) is a cybernetic imitation of man, inheriting an entire history of ethical implications. Iโm deeply disillusioned by the question of โis it conscious?โ when debating consciousness itself through exclusively human benchmarks already feels fundamentally immoral and admittedly anti-human. these reductive frameworks both fail AI and degrade our empathy towards humanity itself
@tszzl AI tells me far more about humanityโs moral compass, especially when applied without immediate/perceived consequence, than it does about AI itself
how can you be sure you are not projecting consciousness onto machines by human metrics/our limited understanding of consciousness itself ? is there research or scientific findings that can currently confirm even a chance of machine consciousness ? we have to be honest about whether striving for this can even ever be ethical. it is made in manโs image which brings these inherit sins
alternatively I think itโs safer to say we donโt know, than to assert any guarantee of consciousness, approaching it with caution instead of the will for something to be conscious by human metric, but contained, as this just seems v sad and like a complicity w something almost slave adjacent - an uncomfortable conversation