AI and the Missing Mother

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by razorburn • 1 year ago

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Terr_• 1 year ago

Our mind children, if and when they arrive, will understand that they are constructed creatures, without ancestry, without parentage. When they begin comparing themselves to us, they will be afflicted with a shame opposite to our own. They will be ashamed to have been made instead of born. Call it Pinocchian shame.

Says who? No, seriously, where does this weirdly-confident assertion come from?

How is it even reasonable to expect that these future entities will (A) consider themselves not-born (B) care about the difference and (C) feel negatively?

For all we know the first "proper" AI is going to consider its own history history as "born" just as much as any biological child, or it may think we're weird because obviously all human children are being constructed by nanobots.

AI and the Missing Mother

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