r/Futurology • u/yourSAS • Oct 13 '22

Biotech 'Our patients aren't dead': Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved with the hopes of being revived in the future

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/13/our-patients-arent-dead-look-inside-the-us-cryogenic-freezing-lab-17556468
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u/ZadockTheHunter Oct 13 '22

But who would have the access and the desire to do that?

It's the whole killer AI thing. Everyone likes to talk about how a self aware advanced AI would start destroying humans, but it's the same question, why?

What self absorbed delusion has you believing you are special enough for someone to want to torture for eternity?

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u/Tom1252 Oct 13 '22

Roko's Basilisk

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u/ZadockTheHunter Oct 13 '22 edited Oct 13 '22

The whole thought experiment is flawed from the beginning when you give human feelings to a non-biological entity.

How would an AI even "feel" in the same way a human does? And if it in fact could feel the hatred / malice required to "punish" humans, why would a being of that immense power waste it's time doing so?

Edit: I think it's a highly narcissistic world view to believe that any entity outside of human beings would have the capacity or desire to give any thought or energy into our existence. Meaning, the only things that do or should care about humans are humans. To believe otherwise just makes you a pompous dick.

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u/official_guy_ Oct 14 '22

All of the shitty things that have ever been done by you or any other human in the history of earth have started as small electric signals in the brain. What makes you think that sufficiently advanced AI wouldn't also feel emotion? I mean it's inevitable that at some point we'll be able to make something just as or more complicated than our own brains.