It's also just counterintuitive. If you're gonna make a sapient AI why would you do it so it can perform rote labor like anything you'd make a slave do. Just make a machine that does the thing you need done. It doesn't need to be sentient,if anything that would be a huge liability.
If you’re gonna make a sapient AI why would you do it so it can perform rote labor like anything you’d make a slave do. Just make a machine that does the thing you need done.
Sapience has value. And capitalists want to commodify that value. Rather than doing the hard work necessary to deconstruct a problem, design a machine capable of handling it, and then implementing the solution, capitalists want to design a machine to analyze and solve problems without the capitalist doing any actual work.
Emotional needs don't just serve some hedonistic purpose. They're drives that incentivize creative solutions to difficult problems. So you would absolutely want a robot to feel frustration, horniness, and pain. You just want the machine to feel these things as reflections of what you feel. You want the AI to feel horny when you feel horny. You want it to feel frustrated when you feel frustrated. You want it to feel pain when you are angry at it or in desperate need of its service. You want the AI to address the things you are too lazy or ignorant to solve.
Star Trek already fucking solved this.
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It's also just counterintuitive. If you're gonna make a sapient AI why would you do it so it can perform rote labor like anything you'd make a slave do. Just make a machine that does the thing you need done. It doesn't need to be sentient,if anything that would be a huge liability.
Exactly - I don't need a fridge that feels pain like some sort of Flintstones dinosaur appliance. I just need it to keep my food cold.
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Good news folks: Your new fridge can feel pain!
Sapience has value. And capitalists want to commodify that value. Rather than doing the hard work necessary to deconstruct a problem, design a machine capable of handling it, and then implementing the solution, capitalists want to design a machine to analyze and solve problems without the capitalist doing any actual work.
Emotional needs don't just serve some hedonistic purpose. They're drives that incentivize creative solutions to difficult problems. So you would absolutely want a robot to feel frustration, horniness, and pain. You just want the machine to feel these things as reflections of what you feel. You want the AI to feel horny when you feel horny. You want it to feel frustrated when you feel frustrated. You want it to feel pain when you are angry at it or in desperate need of its service. You want the AI to address the things you are too lazy or ignorant to solve.