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chairhairair | on: Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
Consider that it is very costly to train a model. It is only cheap to copy because the substrate we instantiate it onto is a substrate we have designed to be fully readable.

I think you should reconsider this viewpoint. Suppose that we really can create silicon-based consciousness, in that case your view would result in a huge amount of suffering.

Take some other basis for dismissing digital consciousness, this one is too dangerous.

jvanderbot | parent | next
How much data center energy and capex justifies killing a human to save?

I argue zero - placing AI below the value of humans no matter the energy input.

The _only_ reason an AI might be worth saving is if it, say, has a cure for all diseases, but then we're not saving it due to its intrinsic worth, we're saving it because we can save many humans. I _would_ consider the trolly problem a legitimate thing in ethics, but not if an AI were tied up on the tracks no matter how expensive it is. It's a thing. It gets run over to save any human.

nozzlegear | parent | next
Roko's basilisk can suck a fart out of my butt, but no battery blood would ever be worth the life of a single human.
joquarky | parent
Suffering comes from desire.

What would a silicon-based consciousness desire to cause suffering?