Oldchap(20:37:36)
I mean, if our universe is an advanced laboratory simulation then its designer would be tantamount to God for us, and his motivations could potentially be no different from those of our own when we create something.
mirrorbird(20:35:35)
but i guess one can't speculate. it'd be like an ant trying to determine human motivations, there's no common frame of reference
mirrorbird(20:35:15)
my atheism runs along the same lines: if a God was perfect and faultless, why would it create anything...
Oldchap(20:32:33)
result from its brain chemicals. So just pure consciousness, like a blank awareness, detached from all this.... why would it even want to live? Nobody has answered that for me yet.
Oldchap(20:31:55)
"who's to say it would want to?" Yeah, I tend to agree with this. I don't think we have any example of consciousness detached from a biological organism whose motivations to live and survive are connected to its biochemical makeup and the emotions that
mirrorbird(20:24:01)
maybe the super-smart AI will just look around, say, "ugh, imperfect, insolvable" and shut itself down.
mirrorbird(20:23:33)
conscious and conscience, not the same (although both good questions in this case, haha)
Thexder(20:23:07)
and is it required to have a conscience to take over the world?
mirrorbird(20:23:06)
i'm not at all convinced that an electronic device can ever become conscious. and let's go full sci-fi and imagine it could "engineer" bio-organisms to continue its legacy. who's to say it would want to?