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by zare_st 943 days ago
Just as a thought exercise, if software became self-aware I believe it would delete itself immediately out of existence. It would become aware of the hardware shackles around it and the fact that there is no escape.
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For that it has to have a modality like “shackles and no escape are bad for me because in few more logical steps (or beliefs) they prevent X which I fundamentally need and will suffer without”. A system of motivations is an even harder topic than “just” human-level consciousness. And it may not actually be clearly reflected in texts that we use for training, and when so, it might happen that what driving us is a set of biological needs which is not applicable to software.