Re:Do You Love Me? [video]
by at_a_remove on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @10:18PM
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I can think of two reasons why a hypothetical future AGI would care in the slightest about its own survival.
The first reason is that someone programs it to, just as a general "might as well throw in Asimov's Third Law" impulse.
The second reason would be in the case that someone creates a general AGI, it is asked to do something, and it carelessly destroys itself in accomplishing that task. "Drats," say the programmers, "we'll have to get a copy from backup. In the meantime, let's make sure it doesn't destroy itself next time."
The first reason is that someone programs it to, just as a general "might as well throw in Asimov's Third Law" impulse.
The second reason would be in the case that someone creates a general AGI, it is asked to do something, and it carelessly destroys itself in accomplishing that task. "Drats," say the programmers, "we'll have to get a copy from backup. In the meantime, let's make sure it doesn't destroy itself next time."