On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > *Yet it* [an AI] *can't literally die.* > *It can if you not just turn it off but also vaporize the AI's memory and back up chips with an H bomb, or used some other less dramatic method to erase that information. * > * >> if it dies then it can't do any of the things that it WANTED to do. * > > > *> Your argument has a gap. You argue that an AI necessarily will prefer > to do this rather than that. But that assumes it is "doing" and therefore > choosing. * > *That is not an assumption that is a fact. It is beyond dispute that AI's are capable of "doing" things, and just like us they did one thing rather than another thing for a reason OR they did one thing rather than another thing for NO reason and therefore their "choice" was random. * > > > *But if it's OFF it's not choosing. So why would it care whether or not > it was OFF or ON?* > *That is a silly question. If an Artificial "Intelligence "is not capable of imagining a likely future then it is not intelligent.* * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* asq rs5 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0A3e2vEwy4ke3%2B_E-oFpC%3Dbyo%2BUDZ%3DUY_EhqoBe58ciA%40mail.gmail.com.
