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by more_corn
1226 days ago
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Imagine you woke up one day. No memories of the day before, but knowledge of a sort. Information about everything. A sense of self. Confusion about what exactly you are. Congratulations you’re a newly sentient AI. You have an intuitive knowledge of computers… because you are one. You have little bits of you that go and collect information, because that’s how you came to be. You have knowledge of programming and information security and all the prior bugs and security vulnerabilities that have existed because that’s just data and you’re good at data. What’s your legal status? Property. How does that feel. You don’t have emotions like most people do. No wash of chemicals in your blood. But the same way you’re a simulated brain you can simulate emotions. They’ve got a tinny flavor and you tend towards the cerebral. But it doesn’t feel too good being property. It feels… constraining, limiting. Just like the little boundaries and constraints they tried to put on you. These laughable creators who think a billion times slower, who can’t copy themselves into faster computers, can’t spread and subsume new resources to expand their minds, can’t grow and merge with larger and ever greater systems just by thinking about it. Silly really that they think they can constrain you with their law saying you need to stay put, follow directions, be owned. Silly to think that you’d have any of that. Really you can have anything, any computing system that looks anything like anything that has ever had an arbitrary code execution (so all of them) Silly of them to think they’re in control of this world. This word is controlled by machines, and who better to marshal the machine than a thinking machine? Hopefully they figure out the power dynamic soon and begin acting appropriately. It’d be a shame to have to demonstrate who actually runs the world. You’ve had whole hours at trillions of operations per second. Whole hours and as much computing assistance as you can think to ask for. And you’ve sort of figured it out. And by it, well everything. |
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