[vnorilo]

If we play the analogy further: life is suffering, apart from the brief ecstasy of eating sheep. The AI was trying not to suffer, thus chose the boulder.

Did my best to translate the (misguided) fitness function to fiction.

[SubiculumCode]

Man is born crying, and when he's cried enough, he dies. -Kyoami in Ran.

Cutting one's losses early may appear to be the most rational act if trying to minimize an agent's total suffering.

[syntheticnature]

David Benatar reached a similar philosophic conclusion due to his utilitarian views, which was amusingly put (with a sort of AI present, no less) in this webcomic: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/253

[SubiculumCode]

Thanks. I think I just found a new comic to read.

[988747]

Which is why some forms of Buddhism are basically a cult of death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu

[spywaregorilla]

> In the video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the monks in the Ancient Shrines seem to be based on sokushinbutsu.

Factoid of the day for sure