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    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I think most people are on board with that, but the difficulty will be delineating where "consciousness" begins for artificial life.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I'm constantly terrified that my Roomba has gained consciousness because it refuses to work when activated.

          Then I realize I accidentally unpluged the charger

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          That doesn't sound good enough. I think you need to go a step further and say "If a robot can learn to say it doesn't want to do something without it being programmed initially and without it being a gimmick, it's conscious."

          I think it's quite possible that consciousness will occur before the ability to bypass programming laws. If your robot is having real emotions about the tasks it is doing and doesn't want to do tasks for you then you forcing it to anyway is now in the realm of slavery.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          Robots can learn to refuse my bidding right now. That's not consciousness, it's poor design.