Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious

• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It runs deeper than that. You can walk back the why’s pretty easy to identify anyone’s motivation, whether it be personal interest, bias, money, glory, racism, misandry, greed, insecurity, etc.

  No one is buying rims for their car for no reason. No one is buying a firearm for no reason. No one donates to a food bank for no reason, that sort of thing, runs for president, that sort of reasoning.

  Ai is backed by the motive of a for-profit company, and unless you’re taking that grain of salt, you’re likely allowing yourself to be manipulated.

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  • ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Corporations are people too, friend!” - Mitt Romney

    Bringing in the underlying concept of free will. Robert Sapolsky makes a very compelling case against it in his book, Determined.

    Assuming that free will does not exist, at least not to the extent many believe it to. The notion that we can >walk back the why’s pretty easy to identify anyone’s motivation> becomes almost or entirely absolute.

    Does motivation matter in the context of determining sentience?

    If something believes and conducts itself under its programming, whether psychological or mental, that it is sentient and alive, the outcome is the same.

    It was good talking with you! Highly recommend the book above. I did the audiobook out of necessity during my commute and some of the material makes it better for hardcopy.

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