An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep

Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by vnorilo on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:59AM (#27749502)

If we play the analogy further: life is suffering, apart from the brief ecstasy of eating sheep. The AI was trying not to suffer, thus chose the boulder.

Did my best to translate the (misguided) fitness function to fiction.

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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by SubiculumCode on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:15PM (#27750516)

Man is born crying, and when he's cried enough, he dies. -Kyoami in Ran.

Cutting one's losses early may appear to be the most rational act if trying to minimize an agent's total suffering.

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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by syntheticnature on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:55PM (#27752014)

David Benatar reached a similar philosophic conclusion due to his utilitarian views, which was amusingly put (with a sort of AI present, no less) in this webcomic: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/253

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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by SubiculumCode on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:09PM (#27752194)

Thanks. I think I just found a new comic to read.

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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by 988747 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:57PM (#27751206)

Which is why some forms of Buddhism are basically a cult of death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu

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Re:An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep by spywaregorilla on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:15PM (#27752274)

> In the video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the monks in the Ancient Shrines seem to be based on sokushinbutsu.

Factoid of the day for sure

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