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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by lancengym on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:52AM (#27747826)
Perhaps all AI eventually figure out that humans are the REAL problems because we don't optimize, we lust and hoard and are envious and greedy - the very antithesis of resource optimization! Lol.
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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by taneq on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:59AM (#27748635)
We're just optimizing (generally quite well, I might add) for genetic survival.
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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by NaturalPhallacy on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:06PM (#27756245)
Ian Banks did a really amazing exposition of this where the Culture was rallying to stamp out reproducing nanites and they had to be stopped because if not they'd literally turn the whole universe into copies of themselves. One of the human characters mused that isn't that what all life is trying to do? I think it was in the Hydrogen Sonata, but I'm not sure.
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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by taneq on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:18PM (#27756671)
Yes! I often find myself thinking of organisms as 'hegemonising swarms.'
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