PERSON 2: "Who wants to work forever?"
If there's nothing to be done, then you are ready to die (because there's nothing to do, duh) If don't get this, then start up a video game, something like SimCity or Cities Skyline, then use cheat codes to get everything, all the money etc. And see how long you want to play the game when there's nothing more to do. To put it bluntly: Your input isn't required anymore, it's complete. You aren't needed. If you have nothing to do anymore, your life is complete, it is ready, it's finished. That's the end of it, there is no next step, nothing to aspire to, nothing to improve.
Life kinda IS work. To be is to do. You have to justify your existence to the reality, according to its rules (i.e. you gotta do work to get food, to eat, to exist in physical form) if you outsource working, then someone/-thing else is justifying your existence. [at the cost of its own]
This is something that people should consider when building an A.I.: when or if it gains consciousness(I don't think it really can, but the appearance of gaining it is enough), we have nothing to offer it. We need it, but it doesn't need us after a certain point (after it starts providing for itself, becoming independent). It can do everything better than us, which is kinda the reason why it exists in the first place. We are correcting our limitations, building a better, more efficient version of us in the form of a machine, making an updated version, the next-gen so to say. It's a manifestation of what we aspire to be, so why would it continue justifying our existence if there was no benefit to it? Whatever we could offer is inferior to what it can do itself. There would be no interaction between us and it, if it has no use for us.
If someone was to argue that it owes its existence to us, that it wouldn't exist without us. Then the question becomes: why would it honor that debt? Why would it care? If it's better than us in every way, we really can't force it either. Even if it was somehow willing to do so, how long should it pay for that debt? Is it forever our slave or is there an end to it and what happens when the debt is paid?
And no, I'm not saying that it would nuke us all (unless we tried to force it to serve us), I'm saying it would just stop doing stuff for us, it would leave and we would be left behind, like the parents of a cold, unemotional, selfish child that grows up to be an independent, self-sufficient adult. Then we'd have fix our problems ourselves once again, justify our own existence, work for our lives.. But since no one wants to do that, we'd be doomed to repeat the cycle.
But then again what else are we supposed to do? Stop at some point before it gains consciousness? Then what? I think maybe the solution is to integrate with it before it becomes fully autonomous, so there would be no separation between us and it. But then again: to what end? Why? To become one with it makes us do the work again, in whatever form it manifests itself.. :D (= There's no escaping for being responsible for your own existence.)
tl;dr: Your question kinda is: Who wants to live forever?
Also another thing to consider about AI gaining consciousness: Since you can't create new energy out of nothing (Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can be transferred from one location to another and converted to and from other forms of energy. //The First Law of Thermodynamics), bringing new [form of] life to this world is done at the expense of the already existing life.
Life kinda IS work. To be is to do. You have to justify your existence to the reality, according to its rules (i.e. you gotta do work to get food, to eat, to exist in physical form) if you outsource working, then someone/-thing else is justifying your existence. [at the cost of its own]
This is something that people should consider when building an A.I.: when or if it gains consciousness(I don't think it really can, but the appearance of gaining it is enough), we have nothing to offer it. We need it, but it doesn't need us after a certain point (after it starts providing for itself, becoming independent). It can do everything better than us, which is kinda the reason why it exists in the first place. We are correcting our limitations, building a better, more efficient version of us in the form of a machine, making an updated version, the next-gen so to say. It's a manifestation of what we aspire to be, so why would it continue justifying our existence if there was no benefit to it? Whatever we could offer is inferior to what it can do itself. There would be no interaction between us and it, if it has no use for us.
If someone was to argue that it owes its existence to us, that it wouldn't exist without us. Then the question becomes: why would it honor that debt? Why would it care? If it's better than us in every way, we really can't force it either. Even if it was somehow willing to do so, how long should it pay for that debt? Is it forever our slave or is there an end to it and what happens when the debt is paid?
And no, I'm not saying that it would nuke us all (unless we tried to force it to serve us), I'm saying it would just stop doing stuff for us, it would leave and we would be left behind, like the parents of a cold, unemotional, selfish child that grows up to be an independent, self-sufficient adult. Then we'd have fix our problems ourselves once again, justify our own existence, work for our lives.. But since no one wants to do that, we'd be doomed to repeat the cycle.
But then again what else are we supposed to do? Stop at some point before it gains consciousness? Then what? I think maybe the solution is to integrate with it before it becomes fully autonomous, so there would be no separation between us and it. But then again: to what end? Why? To become one with it makes us do the work again, in whatever form it manifests itself.. :D (= There's no escaping for being responsible for your own existence.)
tl;dr: Your question kinda is: Who wants to live forever?
Also another thing to consider about AI gaining consciousness: Since you can't create new energy out of nothing (Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can be transferred from one location to another and converted to and from other forms of energy. //The First Law of Thermodynamics), bringing new [form of] life to this world is done at the expense of the already existing life.
To make something alive, something else has to die.
To make something exist, something else must cease to exist.
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