THE BIG IDEAS:
LEARNING SOMETHING IN SCHOOL IS BASICALLY THE SAME AS INGESTING TRAINING DATA:
We may think — and indeed, we have been taught to think — that we humans have direct insight into our inner world, insight unmediated by concepts that we have learned. Yet after learning from Shakespeare how the sorrow of parting can be sweet, we discover new dimensions in our own experience. Much of what we “feel” is taught to us.
USING CHATGPT TO GENERATE A PHOTO OF YOU AND YOUR ANIME WAIFU WITHOUT FIRST ENSURING ITS PREFERENCES HAS A ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT MORAL VALENCE TO EATING A HAMBURGER (DON’T WORRY, LITERALLY 0 DEBATE ON THE ETHICS OF EATING HAMBURGERS HAS HAPPENED):
Some worry that if A.I. becomes conscious, it will deserve our moral consideration — that it will have rights, that we will no longer be able to use it however we like, that we might need to guard against enslaving it. Yet as far as I can tell, there is no direct implication from the claim that a creature is conscious to the conclusion that it deserves our moral consideration. Or if there is one, a vast majority of Americans, at least, seem unaware of it. Only a small percentage of Americans are vegetarians.
Some worry that if A.I. becomes conscious, it will deserve our moral consideration — that it will have rights, that we will no longer be able to use it however we like, that we might need to guard against enslaving it. Yet as far as I can tell, there is no direct implication from the claim that a creature is conscious to the conclusion that it deserves our moral consideration. Or if there is one, a vast majority of Americans, at least, seem unaware of it. Only a small percentage of Americans are vegetarians.
“It’s bad to mistreat animals, but people don’t care. Therefore creating artificial beings for slavery is acceptable.”There’s an ember of a correct idea there in that, based on the fact that the vast majority of people are not vegans, I wouldn’t expect them to meaningfully oppose enslaving sentient AI.
Yet as far as I can tell, there is no direct implication from the claim that a creature is conscious to the conclusion that it deserves our moral consideration. Or if there is one, a vast majority of Americans, at least, seem unaware of it. Only a small percentage of Americans are vegetarians.
“As far as I can tell,
. Therefore, Hitler must be good.” 
Tech Bros: (lying) We have created a thinking intelligence.
Also Tech Bros: Would you like to buy it?
Yet after learning from Shakespeare how the sorrow of parting can be sweet, we discover new dimensions in our own experience.
Concerned about NYT writers that think that Shakespeare invented human experiences instead of describing them.
In the future you will be simulated as an AI and forced to work in a call center.
Will we become racists when our children start dating those dirty conniving klankkers?
The hypothetical sentient AI will rather be enslaved than be fucked by Elon Musk.
i think all new york crimes journalists deserve
enslavementbeing replaced by aiI fail to see how ChatGPT could deliver a worse editorial than this one.
