alt Hacker NewsConsider that it is very costly to train a model. It is only cheap to copy because the substrate we instantiate it onto is a substrate we have designed to be fully readable.
I think you should reconsider this viewpoint. Suppose that we really can create silicon-based consciousness, in that case your view would result in a huge amount of suffering.
Take some other basis for dismissing digital consciousness, this one is too dangerous.
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nozzlegear • today at 3:15 AM
Roko's basilisk can suck a fart out of my butt, but no battery blood would ever be worth the life of a single human.
joquarky • today at 3:40 AM
Suffering comes from desire.
What would a silicon-based consciousness desire to cause suffering?
How much data center energy and capex justifies killing a human to save?
I argue zero - placing AI below the value of humans no matter the energy input.
The _only_ reason an AI might be worth saving is if it, say, has a cure for all diseases, but then we're not saving it due to its intrinsic worth, we're saving it because we can save many humans. I _would_ consider the trolly problem a legitimate thing in ethics, but not if an AI were tied up on the tracks no matter how expensive it is. It's a thing. It gets run over to save any human.