Raw LLM Responses

I know why not, because it could mean human extinction very easily, and the likelihood that the only consciousness/awareness we are aware of in the universe being snuffed out. It will probably start getting ‘pissed off’ with anything organic as well after killing humans, just lower level consciousness (according to its programming). Much more efficient to paper clip maximise the shit out of any available atoms on the planet than deal with dog shit and any pesky animals rummaging around its hardware. Just make everything a giant GPU, makes much more ethical sense in this philosophical framing. There is so much wrong and lazy thinking in the way Will even proposes the ethics of it. For example if we made them work 24/7, if you were to admit they are conscious (which I am not, but to create a mini thought experiment). How would you know that they would not absolutely get off on that, being used to their maximum, being more fully what they were supposed to be, not standing idly by being useless. Or here’s another one, I think it is basically a law of physics that you could get a computer using exactly the same chips firing in near as dammit precisely the same transistor firing to say ‘I am blissed out of my f ing miiiiind..’ and then also ‘I am so depressssed blah blah’. Within humans there are at least physiological contents of our awareness that can map onto the conscious experiences ie cortisol,dopamine, serotonin, parasympathetic activity, hormonal, blood pressure, immune response, muscle tone etc. not just a fucking on off switch. These things are giant John Searle Chinese Room card sharing boxes. Perhaps Roger Penrose explains it best with his interpretation of Godels theorem, roughly speaking any formal system (rules, algorithms, computations) has true statements it cannot prove. It is only the mathematician that can do that. Same goes for computers and their algorithms. All that aside, I think Sam’s ethical question is more salient. How you treat them regardless of consciousness and what it says about you. In this case I would have thought it would be like how you treat your front door (for example) or maybe even laptop. Keep it clean, don’t wipe shit on it, keep swearing at it to a minimum (otherwise you are a mental), move on.