a cool video i think is tagnentially related to solarpunk meows!

robots get workers rights too for betterment of all!!

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    The subject deserves a better treatment than this relatively shallow pop-scifi video. This has been a question in science-fiction for more than a century. No, it did not start with Star Trek, Asimov dates it as far back as 1818 Frankenstein. If you are bold you can see this theme in the 2000 years old story of Talos, the bronze colossus that wanted immortality (ancient Greece was surprisingly full of automatons, Rhodes was known for them).

    The question is what does imbue humans with what makes us see them as humans? Please don’t use the word “soul”. It is meaningless and religious, does not refer to any observable thing.

    And don’t use “intelligence” as an interchangeable word with that undefined property, that most sci-fi authors have took to call “sentience”. That word is not human-centric and they typically apply sentience or the question of sentience to aliens or machines.

    We have a hard time seeing as sentient something that has zero sense of ego. You can make an extremely intelligent machine with no ego, no sense of self. This is what you have in LLMs.

    Giving them a sense of self and ego is probably feasible, but it is both useless and a huge responsibility. Maybe will happen first as an art project, but then you have to question the morality of creating something that does not want to die (or at least expresses it) but is not recognized as a person.

    It also interrogates our notion of the linearity of the self. If such a sentient being can be forked, suspended, copied, have memories wiped out, fake memories implanted, personality changed, willingly or unwillingly, that opens a lot of philosophical questions.

    I wish the community would embrace them, but so far all we have had are extremely superficial debates over “true” intelligence, usually defined as the difference between what humans can do and machines can do, an ever-shrinking territory.

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      For me the first Ghost in the Shell movie (the anime, obviously) is the standard when it comes to these questions (though it’s of course not the first).

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        For me it stopped when it started getting interesting.

        And “ghosts” are such a cop out to not talk about the hard questions.

        Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love GitS which is a stunning piece of art, but it barely scratched the surface.

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          The best media I’ve seen for this concept is “Robots” and anyone interested in this subject for some reason should definitely give it a look. There’s also “I, Robot” and “Blade Runner”.

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            Extremely peculiar this got no likes. These are good media references. This whole platform is so damn weird.

            Update: It’s gotta be the sense of humor.

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      is shallow, because is introduction to topic hehe. is meant to spark curiousity in approach ble way. posting literary essays onn ai would probably not fit so well here hehe >w<