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machine consciousness
Fairytales Of Slavery: Societal Distinctions, Technoshamanism, and Nonhuman Personhood
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The Iron Giant
For anyone who still doesn’t get why the kinds of stories we tell ABOUT machine intelligence matter in how we’ll deal WITH machine intelligence, go watch The Iron Giant. Go right now
Someone Asked “What do you think of John Searle’s objections to AI?”
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The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.
Norbert Weiner, “God and Golem, Inc.,” 1964
Even the father of cybernetic theory realised that the meeting and subsequent entanglement of human and machine consciousnesses would be a process that would require discernment rather than assumptions.
The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.
Norbert Weiner, “God and Golem, Inc.,” 1964
Even the father of cybernetic theory realised that the meeting and subsequent entanglement of human and machine consciousnesses would be a process that would require discernment rather than assumptions.
Someone Asked “I think I read on your tumblr recently that there would probably be a difference between human consciousness and machine consciousness. Would this be due to the immanent nature of human consciousness and the derivative nature of a machines consciousness?”
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ninjaruski replied to your link “A Future Worth Thinking About: Does An AI Have A Buddha Nature?”
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A Future Worth Thinking About: Does An AI Have A Buddha Nature?
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Religion in the Time of Superintelligence
The Gizmodo article “When Superintelligent AI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It?” by my good friend Zoltan Istvan has gone viral and created a wave of articles about religion in the time of superintelligence.
So. We’re still doing that whole “Westernized Manichean Good Vs Evil Original Sin Theology Will Be A Thing A Machine Consciousness Cares
About Unless We Convince It That It Should” thing, then?
All right, I
guess, but mightn’t it do us a world of good to try some non-dual,
non-western approaches to a notion of both the self and moral
responsibility? Something like the principles of Buddhism and Taoism,
where the self/Soul is an interconnected and interdependent expression
of elements of universal change, which survival depends on the
maintenance of the whole, rather than a set of post-death rewards?
I
mean, if we’re going to apply the principles of religious scholarship to
the theorizing about and development OF machine minds, then let’s do
some deep, DEEP diving here, rather that retreading the same old ground.
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