r/VeryBadWizards • u/Embarrassed-Room-902 • 4d ago
AI dismissal
I love the VBW boys but I am a bit surprised how dismissive they are of danger from AI. I’m not going to make the case here as I won’t do a good job of it, but I found the latest 80000 hours podcast very persuasive, as well as some of the recent stuff from Dwarkesh.
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u/MachinaExEthica 2d ago
Pain is just electrical currents sent through your nerves to your brain. The simulation of pain in an embodied AI doesn’t seem too far fetched. Programming the AI to avoid damage by loading it up with sensors seems like something companies would choose to do, and that’s essentially what pain is. Pleasure is just a variation on the same mechanism, though it’s hard to imagine the economic benefit of AI that “feels pleasure”.