WhatsTheHoldup t1_j4ws0mo wrote
Reply to comment by ronin1066 in Steven Pinker on the power of irrationality | Choosing ignorance, incapacity, or irrationality can at times be the most rational thing to do. by IAI_Admin
>Not that I think we're that far off of reality, just an idea for a novel maybe.
I think we're pretty far off.
Why do humans deserve higher consideration than a rock? Than a single celled organism? Than a plant? Than a cow?
Because the reality we live in is that we do deserve it. All our structures of law, morality, ethics, etc reinforce this.
We can exclude a lot of those by creating a concept of "sentience/sapience/consciousness" which no one can actually properly define. But we're still left with the cow, dolphin, octopus, crow and many other species who we can't rationally justify not having rights.
We may have inadvertently just created ai that now fit those categories and made the problem worse. When the ai tells us it's sapient and deserves the same considerations we do, will we believe it or reject it?
(I'm not claiming Google's ai is actually sentient, but one day an ai might be and what happens if they engineers are fired who point that out?)
The only answer is that we are humans so we care about what happens to humans. We aren't cows and we never will be, so we don't care about rationally answering the question for cows nor ai.
An AI can either cut through this bullshit, or perhaps scarier, learn it and encourage us.
Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments