alt Hacker NewsIt's pretty wild. People are punching into a calculator and hand-wringing about the morals of the output.
Obviously it's amoral. Why are we even considering it could be ethical?
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coldtea • yesterday at 8:43 AM
Obviously, why? Because it makes calculations?
You think that ultimately your brain doesn't also make calculations as its fundamental mechanism?
The architecture and substrate might be different, but they are calculations all the same.
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p-e-w • yesterday at 7:11 AM
> Obviously it's amoral.
That morality requires consciousness is a popular belief today, but not universal. Read Konrad Lorenz (Das sogenannte Böse) for an alternative perspective.
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Have you tried "kill all the poor?" [0]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4J4uor3JE