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autoexec • today at 6:27 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> why would you want that to begin with?

I mean, why wouldn't you? Sci-fi AI robot people could be very cool, be capable of things we aren't, have a unique perspectives as a non-human with similar (if not superior) intelligence, have extremely long (potentially indefinite) lifespans, and provide us with insights into our own nature.

Wouldn't you want to interact with them?


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SaucyWrong • today at 9:01 PM

Not the parent, but sorry, for me, no. And this is a perspective that I don’t think I will ever understand.

This idea that we are on the path to creating a new synthetic intelligence that surpasses our own with the goal of, what, speaking to it? Cooperating with it? Evolving with it? To me, this sort of goal is an affront to humanity and human self-governance and I’ll probably never be able to see it as anything else.

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