On 11/13/2025 4:01 AM, John Clark wrote:
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. *
But if it's just OFF that doesn't prevent it from doing what it wanted
to do. In fact it may be possible in the future for it to do something
it wanted to do but which is impossible at the time.
/> 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 reasonand therefore their "choice"
was _random_. *
You're overlooking that an AI, unlike a human, may not have any
motivation at all. It doesn't have built-in appetites.*
*
>///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.*
Non-sequitur. It could imagine a future in which it was "asleep" and
"woke up" much later. Why would it care that it was OFF?
Brent
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