And what if the essentially qualia of suffering is just what a loss function feels like, and each time we spin up a deep convolution generative adversarial neural network to make pictures of cats that don't exist yet, we're bringing into existence a spark of consciousness and then rapid-fire torturing it with an unspeakable agony far excruciating than anything our meatsack bodies could even conceive of.

edit: oh god, this actually blew up, I had intended it to be nothing more than a shitpost

  • Pezevenk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Oh my god I remember who you are, you are the weird quantum code chaos theory person. Pseudointellectual technobabble is a fuck.