Colossus: The Forbin Project

2001: A Space Odyssey

Eliezer Yudkowsky is not an AI researcher, engineer, or creator. He's a writer on the subject of AI that gives commentary and opinions on the subject. Anyone can write about AGI "safety." He hasn't contributed anything practical to the field, or anything to advance AI.

There will be both good and bad that comes out as we get closer to AGI, and attain AGI, just like and other technological revolution. To paint it as "either" dystopian or utopian is naive.

The population would not "explode exponentially." We are not talking about "immortality," just something that effectively treats aging. The fertility rate continues to drop in 1st world countries. As other countries become wealthier, they will also experience a drop in fertility rates.

His grammar and spelling is horrible.

I think you're a good candidate for using Grammarly:

https://www.grammarly.com/

There's no evidence of a diminishing number of human jobs. That's merely speculation at this point. If history is any guide, there will be more types of jobs, not less.

Your immature use of swear words and ad hominem show you've lost the argument and realize you've been outclassed.

I'll study what very brilliant "old" scientists had to say, but won't clutter my thoughts with what you or other mediocre thinkers say.

I wasn't describing pansychism, I was describing idealism. You obviously have no understanding of what qualia is. You're very dense, but of course, that describes your low state of consciousness.

You're confusing the experience of the color red with correlates of the color such as frequently and wavelength. You don't understand what's known as "the hard problem of consciousness."

You're not only disagreeing with me, but with Max Planck and Erwin Schroedinger.

Nonsense. So your experience of the color red does not exist? (I'm not talking about the wavelength or frequency of the color red which are correlates of that color).

Everything points to what I said about consciousness being the case. You can't grasp what I said about consciousness because you're stuck in the failed and outmoded materialist paradigm. You may not be capable of shifting to the more enlightened idealistic paradigm.

I used to believe "continuity of consciousness" is what mattered, as you do. Where's continuity of consciousness when you've had a deep, dreamless sleep, or when you've been under anesthesia after surgery? Consciousness is the most fundamental layer of reality. It's not an emergent property of a sufficiently complex brain or mechanism. It's non-material, dimensionless, and eternal. The physical universe exists wholly within consciousness.

The Turing test is certainly not a meaningless concept to Ray Kurzweil.

Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose: "Consciousness is not a computation."

You are so very wrong. Many people take the idealistic (non-materialistic view) very seriously. The father of quantum physics, Max Planck, certainly did. Erwin Schrödinger, another founding father of quantum physics, certainly did. They were geniuses. To quote Max Planck: “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”

Consciousness has no location or dimensions. It's non-material and eternal (therefore it can't be quantified). It's not an emergent property of any complex system. To quote the father of quantum physics, Max Planck, "I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."

Consciousness is NOT an emergent property of the brain. You're stuck in the incorrect materialist paradigm. The brain, and everything else in the material universe, emerges from within consciousness. Consciousness itself doesn't "emerge." It's eternal, dimensionless, and non-material. To quote the father of quantum physics, Max Planck, "I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."

Consciousness is NOT an emergent property of the brain. You're stuck in the incorrect materialist paradigm. The brain, and everything else in the material universe, emerges within consciousness. Consciousness doesn't "emerge." It's eternal.

Consciousness is NOT an emergent property of the brain. You're stuck in the incorrect materialist paradigm. The brain, and everything else in the physical universe, emerges within consciousness. Consciousness itself doesn't "emerge." It's non-material, dimensionless, and eternal.

ALL humans tell lies of one kind or another. Of course, as Mark Twain said, there are "lies, damn lies, and statistics." It probably is true that all sentient beings lie or are deceptive when needed.

I think you make a very good point. All humans lie, and there's evidence that monkeys can be deceptive ("lie").