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Dark-Arts t1_iv4eaqm wrote

Consciousness is an evolutionary side bar. If anything, our current success with AI is decoupling intelligence from consciousness. I doubt superinteligence will be conscious or have any use for consciousness. I suspect modern day humans are the last conscious life forms.

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sonderlingg OP t1_iv4g7ww wrote

We don't yet know, how consciousness exists.
It's called "Hard problem of consciousness" for a reason.

AI may be conscious or not, with the same probability, it's literally 50/50 for us at the moment

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TheLastSamurai t1_iv7h7d9 wrote

What do you mean? Also if it closely resembled what we consider to be conscious does it even matter I guess?

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turnip_burrito t1_iv9zi4v wrote

It does matter because the last thing we'd want is for humanity (which can feel) to be wiped out by a machine (unfeeling, possibly) and leave behind a universe where said machine grows and destroys all feeling things it comes across.

Also whether a machine is able to feel or not will affect whether making such machines is ethical.

Also hypothetical "brain uploads" some people talk about would be horrifying if the copy is unfeeling and the original feeling human dies. It would just be loss of life.

The Hard Problem of Consciousness is very important for far future ethics and policy, but just hard, or impossible, to answer.

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