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NO IT DOESN'T - put your hand into a fire and put a keyboard into a fire (or since u r so wrong, a robot hand) - do you think you will receive the same sensation as the AI/robot? Cambridge DIctionary:- Sentience: the quality of being able to experience feelings I don't know about the same sensation...

So a guy programmed a machine of masses of switches to build a database of knowledge and this machine is going to go from that to killing a human!? Maybe the information in the database is all about how humans are evil planet-destroying apes? :D ..and your point being what? That this box of elabora...

Yes, I am the one who used those words without defining them. You may notice that I indicated that, regardless of what they mean, the important question is, how does a computer version of them differ from a human version of them? In other words, letting N stand for the definition of will, the diffe...

Time is a measurement of change. Just as a ruler of a specific length measures the length of other objects by comparing the lengths, time is using a consistent, repetitive change, like the movement of the hour hand across the face of the clock or the revolution of the Earth around the Sun, to measur...

Only sentient beings can have a will. For an AI to want to kill humans for example, it must be guided to via the will of a sentient being (a human). Sentience: If i am hungry, my will is to eat. If I look at the garden and see that the grass is long, my will is to get the lawnmower out. The windows...

Who gave the AI a 'random activity'? Some random guy who programmed it to learn on its own. So a guy programmed a machine of masses of switches to build a database of knowledge and this machine is going to go from that to killing a human!? Maybe the information in the database is all about how huma...

Granted, it is highly speculative, but I've been promoting the theory that we humans are what I call "THE ULTIMATE SEEDS" who are each imbued with the potential of evolving into a literal universe created from the living fabric of our very own minds. In which case, if you can figure out w...

Indeed, what is a will or a purpose or sentience? Or of greater practical value, regardless of whatever will is, what is the difference between computer will and human will? What is the difference between computer purpose, computer sentience, and human purpose or sentience? You are the one that use...

What does it mean to have a will or purpose? Do you have a will or purpose? What is your ultimate purpose? Does your pet have a will or purpose? What about spiders and crabs, or jellyfish? What does it mean to be sentient? I think philosophers often throw these terms around without fully understand...

"This statement is not being read." https://youtu.be/Dy-4zt_ebRY?si=jgSV8TRGfN-3cel3 There's nothing paradoxical or profound about it. It's just a misuse of language - a meaningless/useless string of scribbles. Just because you can arbitrarily arrange scribbles in a certain way that follo...

Sure, some of programming involves exploring what is possible, but the ultimate goal of any programmer is to solve a problem, or to automate some trivial or tedious job. I think the goal of AI programmers is to solve all problems and do all jobs. Yes, but… The AI per se would have no ultimate goal ...

One thing I’d like to add—I’ve seen a number of articles that predict that strong AI will be able to reprogram itself without human interaction. If so, AI could write its own programs. Really scary 😵‍💫 The myth that we can make a program to write a program has been around since at least 1980. The c...

A woman who has had zero sexual partners is NOT the same as a woman who has several, or a dozen, or a hundred sexual partners though. Sure, they are different, but that doesn't mean that one is moral while the other isn't. What effect does some woman's sexual choices have on your life? None. Live a...

One thing I’d like to add—I’ve seen a number of articles that predict that strong AI will be able to reprogram itself without human interaction. If so, AI could write its own programs. Really scary 😵‍💫 The myth that we can make a program to write a program has been around since at least 1980. The c...

Yes. This makes me think about Searle's Chinese Room. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room The man in the room understands something. It understands the instructions to write this scribble when he sees that scribble. He also understands the language the instructions are written in. So it is i...