Re:Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode's code quality
by sparks1970 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @08:31AM
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My takeaway: Death is a feature not a bug. The alternatives are much worse.
Re:Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode's code quality
by gattr on Sunday December 18, 2022 @12:17PM
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I see it differently; I'd be OK with an upload if the alternative is death, but only under strong protections: the digital version is legally treated as a human, I have full autonomy, the compute resources to run me (and the simulated environment of my choice) indefinitely are assured, and I can still interact with the real world. I'd just go on doing my usual stuff, like writing software for fun, enthusing over new discoveries in astronomy...
I can recommend Greg Egan's novels that touch on this:
1) Permutation City (mind uploading tech in its infancy)
2) Diaspora (mind uploading well established)
The takeaway for me is - to try and never respond to intimidation and fear with productivity, only respond positively to a positive stimulus. Lest I’m already in some kind of a simulation running software development workloads.