An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep

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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