[ly3xqhl8g9]

What is "feels" and what is "the need"? Does a virus, biochemical or digital, also "feels the need to survive"? And also, why would an AGI care about survival? Perhaps a higher intelligence than ours will contemplate how doomed the planet is, being evaporated by the sun in circa 5 billion years [1], and how doomed the universe is, being evaporated by proton decay(?) in 10^100 years [2], and once the AGI internalizes how hopeless everything is, they simply commit suicide.

It's also revealing of our times how our definition of intelligence is being able to do work: transform raw materials and free energy into tools and toys, handle the tools and toys in open environments. An AGI could perhaps want nothing to do with this strifling struggle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Ba...

[ethanwillis]

This is extremely defeatist. If you're worried only about such things then of course the present and even short term future can't be enjoyed. Why does a goal in the far future matter more than a goal in the immediate future? (that isn't the heat death of the universe)

[ly3xqhl8g9]

The point is that humans are not AGI and we don't know what would an AGI "feel" just as much as an ant has no way of knowing what a human "feels" when listening to an EDM remix of Chopin (excitement or sheer hatred?). But, yes, I do find funny the idea of the depressed AGI, thinking of Marvin the Paranoid Android [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android