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?
mirrorbird(20:22:16)
sometimes there are unexpected barriers, or even loss of interest