Timeline for Why would sentient weapons be created?
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| Sep 21, 2020 at 2:58 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | @Joe Bloggs When I taught 'beginning computer' way back in the DOS age, I actually managed to convince some adult students to 'Look for the SMART key on the keyboard', that would correct their entry mistakes. By pressing that key, it would install 'SMART' in the computer. | |
| Sep 21, 2020 at 2:51 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | 'I, Robot'. The robot saved him over the girl. It was all based on probabilities of survival, totally rational. totally logical, totally wrong. A human with a soul would have saved the girl. | |
| Sep 21, 2020 at 2:02 | comment | added | gilhad | Kamikaze may be totally rational, if going on makes better result, than stay. We people usually value our lives really high, AIs may have other value systems, where self-preservation is not maximum. (People sometimes develop that too - fanatics for some idea are some examples.) And then there may be situation, where your destruction is sure, but you can choise other sideeffects. (You run away over the bridge, I will guard and destroy it, you live, I die fast, or they will catch us both and torture us both to death.) (I fly this bomb and stop enemy, before it sinks our ship and we all die) | |
| Sep 20, 2020 at 19:23 | comment | added | jden | @o.m. Using NPM invariably lead to app pwnage. The ransomeers in this case were a little lazy and had left logging statements in by accident. They were told to use debug breakpoints numerous times by their seniors. In this case, the ransomeers code would, upon attempting to fire the weapon, show a pop-up in the scope requesting payment of 61 bitcoin to complete the action or have all weapons infected explode. | |
| Sep 20, 2020 at 15:22 | comment | added | user8417 | @MichaelSchumacher I would not say necessarily non-rational (i.e., the good of the many can rationally justify the harm/death of the one) but such self-sacrifice seems to rarely be justified by logical argument but by fighting spirit, loyalty, and other more metaphysical values. An intelligence that is not a slave to logic can continue fighting in a hopeless war and sacrifice its life on principle — principle could be an axiomatic value for rational judgment but seems suited to fuzzy thinking. Side note: an AI might be backed up and so not die permanently. | |
| Sep 20, 2020 at 4:10 | comment | added | o.m. | @Jcov, who reads the console log unless there is an error code at the end? | |
| Sep 19, 2020 at 22:27 | comment | added | jden |
npm install weapon-sentience console.log("Weapon now pwned").
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| Sep 19, 2020 at 18:48 | comment | added | Michael Schumacher | @PaulA.Clayton not sure how to read your first two sentences - are you implying that the willingness to perform a Kamikaze attack is necessarily not rational? | |
| Sep 18, 2020 at 20:05 | comment | added | Palbitt |
@JoeBloggs pip install soul xkcd.com/413 It's true. Python is amazing.
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| Sep 18, 2020 at 17:38 | comment | added | user8417 | Kamikaze pilots were sentient. Sentience might be related to the ability to think non-rationally. E.g., in Gordon R. Dickson's The Hour of the Horde, the galaxy is saved by a savage irrationality. A sentient intelligence may seek a sense of meaning beyond its self. A raw intelligence would have no stakes; a legalistic conscience-bound intelligence may suffer analysis paralysis (common in Three Laws stories) or choose a local optimum (where a bit of 'random' noise might make better choices visible to some — metaphysics might provide a noise source). | |
| Sep 18, 2020 at 15:54 | comment | added | o.m. | @DarrelHoffman, wedge the gun into position facing a doorway or an inconveniently large air duct and tell it "shoot anyone who comes after me." Then bug out. | |
| Sep 18, 2020 at 14:07 | comment | added | Daniel Vestøl | @o.m. sentience depends on the nuclear anhilation framework. | |
| Sep 18, 2020 at 13:30 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | Don't know how the kamikaze aspect is relevant, since the weapon in question is a gun, thus reusable. If it were something single-use like a bomb or a missile, that would be more of an issue. (Note that even if the gun's wielder is captured or killed and it comes into the enemy's hands, it could refuse to work for them out of loyalty, so that'd be one advantage.) | |
| Sep 18, 2020 at 10:29 | comment | added | o.m. | @JoeBloggs more "npm install" -- why is this taking 5 minutes? | |
| Sep 18, 2020 at 7:58 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | “Sentience as a dependency” - pip install sentience | |
| Sep 18, 2020 at 5:01 | history | answered | o.m. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |