[ExI] Machines of Loving Grace

[efc at disroot.org]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat wrote:

> On the whole I enjoyed it, but thought there was one glaring omission:
> Self-awareness (aka 'consciousness').
>

Yes!! I've been looking and asking for this as well, but haven't seen
any interesting mainstream discussions around it. I think self-awareness
and volition would be enormous milestones!

Glorified chat bots, although currently useful for minor niche cases
for me, are less interesting.

Give me self-awareness and volition, and there you have something that
will shake the world!