Let's say we were to create a neuromorphic AI (mainly talking about brain emulation) whose goal is to find out everything that is true in the universe, and that has fun and feels good while doing so. Some may despair that it would lack humanity, but everything good about humanity...
1. In our lives we often pay a price for knowledge (a different price for each circumstance) (Either it be something negative happening to us or missing a percieved valuable opportunity) Sometimes we don't recoup the cost of that knowledge during our lifetime, other times we gain it back manifold...
Let's say we were to create a neuromorphic AI (mainly talking about brain emulation) whose goal is to find out everything that is true in the universe, and that has fun and feels good while doing so.
Some may despair that it would lack humanity, but everything good about humanity is good in itself, and not because us humans have it.
And so in time it would find and add all such things that we (or it) consider to be of value to itself (either directly by copying from us, or just by conjuring it from insight during its eternal life (while discarding every unwanted trait imposed upon us by our biological evolution).
And so... (read 365 more words →)
Instead of argue with religious people the existence of heaven, it is much more effective to persuade them that the soul is a superfluous concept and that only the brain is needed to explain what they are experiencing
But I did state its goal; to seek out truth (and to utilize anything that might yeild to that effort)
Thanks for taking the time to explain.
Since many LW readers responded negatively about my apparently controversial idea about AI (check my previous post) without commenting on why, I learned that maybe it's better to build up an audience who is willing to engage with you by leading with 'safer' posts
And the cost was debuting this community with negative karma
1. In our lives we often pay a price for knowledge (a different price for each circumstance)
(Either it be something negative happening to us or missing a percieved valuable opportunity)
Sometimes we don't recoup the cost of that knowledge during our lifetime, other times we gain it back manifold
(Sometimes it's an unconscious purchase, sometimes even against one's will)
2. Sometimes it's a fully thought out transaction, although we often forget later on the reasoning behind our choices (only focusing on the circumstance and the outcome, forgetting how valuable the experience it provided is)
For instance, those experiences may have guided us away from certain bad paths in our lives, but we never account the value... (read more)
I guess it comes down to what one think the goal of all life is
I would say that seeking all such "values" would be part of it, and you don't need billions of different creatures to do that when one optimal being could do it more efficiently