Probably if it's a San Junipero situation.
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Give me the outcome of The Good Place as well where you can choose oblivion after there's nothing left to do.
San Junipero was one of the few "happy" episodes of Black Mirror but it didn't ask the question of "where are we in 10,000 years?" like The Good Place considered.
I question the ethics of ruling over AI subjects and the premise of "anything goes".
This is where we start getting into the realm of philosophy as it relates to science fiction esq "true" Artificial Intelligence.
Taking the post at face value these AI persons that populate your individual pocket dimension would be, for all intents and purposes, sentient artificial minds, or at least controlled by 1 central mind.
So does that AI deserve human rights? Do laws apply to the and interaction had with them? If all they know is humanity then are they also "human"? Is this theoretically infinitely intelligent super computer even capable of truly understanding humanity, emotions, life in all of its facets?
I fully accept that I am getting too deep into this funny internet post but there have been hundreds upon thousands of books, thought experiments, and debates over this EXACT premise. Short answer is there is no answer. It's Schrodinger's morality lol
That's why I said AI that appears consciouss
What's the difference seeming conscious and being conscious?
We literally have no idea and have not figured out a good way to test this.
We do know. Consciousness is what you're experiencing now. Then again general anesthesia is what non-consciousness feels like. Nothing. It by definition cannot be experienced
What we don't know is how to measure it. There's no way to confirm that something is or isn't consciouss
We do know. Consciousness is what youβre experiencing now.
That's true from my pov, but I can't really prove it. Its kinda like the biggest "Trust me bro" that we all assume is true.
Not digging into the ethics, just the ideas are fascinating.
Yeah I agree. The only thing one can be 100% sure of is that they're consciouss themselves
Consciousness means that you're capable of having a subjective experience. It feels like something to be you.
If you only seem consciouss then you can't experience anything. You could aswell not exist at all.
How do you test that? How do you know that people around you actually have conscious and not just seem to have? If you can't experience anything, how do you fake conscious? And is this fake conscious really any less real than ours? I think anything that resembles conscious well enough to fool people could be argued to be real, even if it's different to ours.
I don't think it matters in this case. I decided that they are not consciouss and only seem to be because I didn't want this thread to turn into debate about wether it's immoral to abuse AI systems or not.
I think it matters a great deal! I would like to believe that not only would I not use such a system, I would actively fight to have it made illegal.
Why? That's like making it illegal to kick your roomba
No. I'm very certain that my Roomba is not conscious. But If we can't tell whether or not these people are conscious or not, then I don't think it's right to have this power over them. A better parallel than a Roomba would be an animal.
No. I wrote the premise myself and I specifically said they appear consciouss, not that they are consciouss. I get what you're saying but that does not apply here. In this specific case we know for a fact that they're not consciouss. The only other consciouss being there on top of you are the other real people in the simulation. Not the AI characters.
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I'd jump in, but i would still need a crafted experience. I find designing my own sandbox to be a bit dull. Remember the last season of the Good Place? Turns out infinite wish fulfilment might not be that effective at making us happy. And it certainly won't help us to develop.
But if there are fun, designed experiences that are engaging and challenging to do inside this realm, sign me the fuck up.
Question though: how is time experienced on the inside? Because if our virtual experiences happen faster than real time we could get some real world advantages by studying and training in virtual.
One issue with learning and training, is that you'll have the same limitations as now. You are still human, just connected to a machine and time cannot accelerate to learn faster.
However if we could move, change time to whatever place we want, create whatever we want. And still look real.
Then that would maybe make something very interesting for learning and training. It wouldn't be faster. But for example a teacher would be able to create a world where they can help the students learn better, with images, simulations, stories...
However that may also create some issues where it wouldn't be wise to recreate wars, death and other things which can be shocking for people. Because of that realism, it would be very hard to distinguish between a simulated war/death and a real one.
Tho it would maybe create a huge benefit for training for flying a plane for example. Cheap and no risks to break anything.
Just watch the TV series "Westworld".
(Edit: or one of the many other scifi movies / series / books discussing exactly that question.)
I would jump in head first. Anything that will make me run from this reality.
Of course, but I'd still want to contribute to the real world. Luckily my contributions are non physical, so I could work from VR. And I'd have to log out occasionally to exercise.
Why couldn't you exercise in VR?
Unless the machine you're connected to somehow stimulates your muscles so that they don't athrope then exercise is probably one of the few things you couldn't do in VR. The reason is the same why you can't exercise in your dreams either.
You can do the activity ofcourse and it feels like working out but it does not translate to physical gains in your real body.
What are you talking about? Just because you're wearing a headset doesn't mean you can't move your body. You'd have to have weights in the real world to use weights in VR, but even if you didn't, you could do planks, push ups, and various other excersises on the real floor you're standing on.
We're imagining a different kind of virtual reality then. My version doesn't include VR goggles but is more like a dream.
Like Inception?