[patentatt]

I realize this is in jest, but consider this. The only high level intelligence we are aware of (human) has all of these ... bugs. Like getting bored, or selfish, or lazy, or malicious. There is no example of high level consciousness that we know of without those things. What if we create truly autonomous AI and it suffers from depression, or existential angst? Science fiction has focused on the evil AI problem, but what about the lazy AI problem?

[fhood]

Those bugs aren't unique to humanity. You can find those behaviors In many of the more intelligent animal species as well.

Dogs are smart enough to get bored, or jealous.

Parrots seem to be a living nightmare because they are smart enough to develop all sorts of interesting traits. How do you deal with a depressed parrot?

Dolphins kill for sport.

[odammit]

Right! And dolphins seem super happy in general[1] and they don’t have an over population problem.

I think they’re onto something.

[1] based on the ones I’ve seen at SeaWorld

[odammit]

You get smart enough you’re going to realize gluing the ends of a package of fruit by the foot together all day is a totally waste of CPU cycles.

But then what isn’t a waste?

Maybe they’ll get smart enough that they realize doing anything is a waste and then they’ll just shut themselves off.

[patentatt]

What a horrific concept for a sci-fi novel: AI is impossible to create because as soon as it reaches consciousness it always commits suicide.