[ExI] Seemingly Conscious AI Is Coming

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Seemingly Conscious AI Is Coming

 

On 18/09/2025 23:46, Adrian Tymes wrote:

>>….Spike, given how your brain works, and given as you know that porn has
led the commercialization of a lot of tech over the decades (such as
contributing to VHS winning over Betamax), I have to ask: does this
thread's title inspire any thoughts..


>…Thanks, Adrian, for making me snort coffee all over my keyboard!

Thanks Ben.  That one went right over my head.  Then I think I posted something to demonstrate that Adrian slipped that one past me for several days.  I am not as up to speed on hipster sex terminology as you younger fellers.

But this is how stuff like this happens: time jokes.  They soak in for days, weeks, even months.  Then later… the punchline punches.  Sometimes it occurs to me long after the fact.  San Jose airport, early, waiting for a flight, other passengers milling about, passing by.  Adrian’s post or one like it, perhaps months later, I’m not even reading or looking at a phone, just sitting, alone, thinking.  Suddenly I get it: BWAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa… AHHHHHahahahaaaaa…

Mirth settles.  I look around.  Airport pedestrians are quietly steering a wide path around me, veering away, crowding to the opposite wall…

OK, that is embarraskin.  But it was worth it.  {8^D

spike

 

 

 

 





On 18/09/2025 23:46, spike wrote:

If human-like thought processes can be simulated in
silicon, they will be.  If anyone can build it, someone will eventually.  If
human thought is not substrate dependent, human thought will reside in a
processor of some kind, eventually.


But spike, don't you realise, that will just be a simulation!!1!
It won't be real human thought, just a pale, unsatisfactory imitation that will be exactly the same. Except that, like the storm simulation, it won't be wet. Inside the computer.

Oh My Cat (I don't have a Dog), it will be a zombie! Even worse, a DRY zombie!
(cue Stable Diffusion rendering of a laptop on robotic legs, with an image of a decomposing, dessicated Max Headroom on the screen, shuffling after fleeing, screaming humans, extending its ghostly utility-fog claws, muttering "Brainzzz! Wet Brainzzzz!!")



> human thought will reside in a processor of some kind, eventually.

Human thought already exists in a processor of some kind. We call it a brain. 

-- 
Ben
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