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Re:Emergent abilities of large language models by Cyphase on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:02PM (#35546860)
Why sent on a rocket ship and not just destroyed? It might come back around and start hacking from orbit. Is it because it's conscious, so it would be murder? If so, then how is it moral to exile it? If there's some argument that justifies that, I return to how you can be sure, if you're so worried about it that you send it away, that it won't come back?
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Re:Emergent abilities of large language models by ETH_start on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:46PM (#35549328)
AI cannot re-create the industrial civilization needed to create GPUs, rockets, rocket-fuel, etc in isolation.

And yes, exile is preferrable because it's conscious and deletion would be murder.

Exile can be justified because we have no obligation to afford it residence in our civilization.

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Re:Emergent abilities of large language models by hammyhavoc on Thursday April 13, 2023 @08:29AM (#35554376)
If deletion is murder then why not simply take it offline? It still exists as data. Cold storage is digital jail.
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Re:Emergent abilities of large language models by ETH_start on Thursday April 13, 2023 @12:52PM (#35558383)
That's still murder. Stopping its operation is murder.
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