AccordingSurround760 t1_j9f2vfw wrote on February 21, 2023 at 1:40 PM

Reply to Would you play a videogame with AI advanced enough that the NPCs truly felt fear and pain when shot at? Why or why not? by MultiverseOfSanity

Obviously not. Why would any sane person want that?

If we ever do get to the point where this is theoretically possible (I don’t believe we are even remotely close now) I would hope it is viewed as an extremely serious crime and punished accordingly.

AccordingSurround760 t1_j9dh7xg wrote on February 21, 2023 at 2:55 AM

Reply to Does anyone else have unrelenting hope for the technological singularity because they’ve lost faith in everything else? by bablebooee

It’s quite clearly the case for a lot of people here which makes discussions extremely frustrating as they don’t like being told that, as impressive as GPT is, it is not the sign of the imminent singularity and the end of their difficulties.

Also, whenever we do get there, it might not be as different as you hope. While the technology will presumably be incredible people will still be people. They will still fight, argue, gossip, cheat, want what someone else has regardless of what they have already. We’ll probably live in homes much like we do now and the cities will be much the same and we’ll do a lot of the same stuff.

It will hopefully remove the need to work for many people and provide us with some freedom. Although I find the claims that nearly all work will vanish to be baffling. There are many jobs where being human is a plus, and basically the point. For example, a fully automated bar is not a particularly difficult problem to solve even today, but there’s not much demand for it as the human element is what matters for many people and I seriously doubt that will change. The fact that Redditors tend towards being young and introverted (or often outright socially dysfunctional) further encourages these sorts of odd ideas about the world.

The point is that it could come next year, or in 10 years or in 100 years and when it does you don’t really know to what degree it will actually help you. Sure, take an interest in it. But despite all our problems life does have a lot to offer and it can be vastly better than you might expect if you spent too much time reading about the world online. It’s almost certainly a much better bet to try to find some happiness, purpose and peace now (as hard as this can be) rather than wait for it to be provided in an entirely hypothetical and uncertain future.