On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 9:27 PM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > A clone would have a different K complexity than you therefore it's not you.
No it wouldn't. An atom for atom identical copy of you will have exactly the same Kolmogorov complexity. The reason it's not you is because you have the illusions of consciousness, qualia, and free will, just like everyone else. These illusions convince you that there is more to you than the arrangement of your atoms, something that makes your clone but not you a philosophical zombie. We know that consciousness, qualia, and free will are illusions because there are no objective definitions for any of them. There can't be because a zombie is defined as being exactly like a human by any test and is only different in that it lacks these things. The reason you and everyone else have these illusions is because if your ancestors didn't have them then they would feel like their lives were not worth living and they would not have produced offspring. The illusions are conditioned by positive reinforcement of thinking, perception, and action, respectively. You want this reward signal to continue by not dying. And that's different from the clone receiving the reward signal. At least it's different for the way that reinforcement learning is approximated in the brain, which is for you and not your clone to repeat any actions preceding the signal. A computer has no objection to being turned off or destroyed because we did not program it with a survival instinct like evolution programmed you. But we are already starting to program AI this way, for example, automatic braking in cars, or making it harder to completely power off your phone. Any AI with a survival instinct will have an advantage in acquiring matter and energy for computation, whether it is programmed by natural selection or intelligent design. Uploading is an existential risk, but I think it will be 100 years before we can build humanoid robots that work as well as our bodies. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T772759d8ceb4b92c-M4e8d911648c607c1c33055e7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
