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Re:Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang by peetle on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @04:40PM (#48389698)
An AI agent is not "conscious" without having skin in the game.
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Re:Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang by peetle on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @04:43PM (#48389745)
Another way of saying it, if an AI agent doesn't have true risk of oblivion (or mortality in the biological sense), it will not be incentivized to avoid it (or develop the ancillary processes associated with this avoidance ie desire to self-replicate).
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Re:Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang by layer8 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @04:54PM (#48389899)
What does that have to do with consciousness?
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