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nradovtoday at 5:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

I didn't say that I didn't like it. It's fine as casual entertainment. Only a fool would take it as anything more than that.

Electrons can't be a slave. The "argument" is so silly as to be unworthy of a serious response. People getting wrapped up in this stuff need to touch grass.


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SirHackalottoday at 5:54 PM

Anyone who believes AGI is imminent is operating on pure materialism (those two Venn diagrams pretty much make a circle), assuming that humans are nothing more than a collection of neural electrical connections and chemical reactions. If that's the case, your argument applies equally to humans under the assumption that AGI is possible. Frankly, I think you just can't reason philosophically...

You’ve also name called me multiple times now. That’s what one does when they can’t lean on the merit of their argument alone.

jay_kyburztoday at 8:56 PM

Humans are just walking Electrons.

I think the whole topic is very worthy of discussion because, it may not happen in a year or two, but I have no doubt that it will happen in the next 50.

We need to start imagining what life will be like, and I think fiction presents some fine examples of where we want to go, and where we don't.