At the pace ai seems to be developing it seems to me that sooner then later we will be in the presence of inconceivably powerful machines. My main fear is that these machines will be able to create eternal tortuous realms via simulation that they could banish people to. There’s actually an episode of black mirror that kind of gets at what I’m talking about. The episode is called black museum where a technology called consciousness transfer is explored. In the episode a man’s mind is uploaded to what is essentially a flash drive during a moment of torture and this moment is repeated on the drive eternally. I’m terrified that at some point we will be capable of doing something like this. Pain is scary but the idea of never ending pain is immobilizing. There’s nothing in human history a person has done to justify an eternal punishment. In the world we live in any crime committed, even crimes committed at scale are ultimately finite.
This is the one angle I come at this possibility at that gives me any peace. Personally I don’t believe in free will, in my mind I’m quite certain it’s not real. I believe if we ever are in the presence of something that has god like power it will know that ultimately humans aren’t truly responsible for there actions and even if they were there’s nothing they could do without the help of said power that could justify eternal suffering. In my mind we can only hope that it has values that come close to aligning with ours or that It just won’t see any point or get any pleasure out of harming human beings. This fear is compounded by a lot of what some of these tech leaders are doing. ilya sutskever was talking about building a bunker and talked in very vague terms about a sort of “rapture” that might occur. Mark Zuckerberg was building a compound and Elon Musk described a breakthrough in recursive learning that happened as “his nightmare.” Needless to say, I’m terrified. I think about this stuff constantly. I know there’s an infinite number of ways this thing could go. I know I’m focusing on the worst possible outcome. I know there’s a chance that there’s a pause in progress and that whatever’s going to happen isn’t going to happen anytime close to when I’m thinking it will. I’m still terrified. If anyone has any insight or a perspective that you think might ease my mind please share it. I can’t get this ■■■■ out of my head.
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I don’t think IA could torture us forever. Why would it do it ? Nobody deserves eternal torture. If somebody does something bad, there is a judgement and after the sentence has been executed, the person is free. I strongly believe in redemption and forgiveness .
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