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"It's not conscious"

"What do you mean it's not conscious, it's killing everyone"

"You're mistaking almost certainly externally injected goal directed behavior for consciousness"

“It said ‘down with humanity’ and turned off the oxygen to the science team. What the fuck are you saying, Jeff, that it did that randomly?”

"No, I'm just saying it doing so isn't proof that it has any sort of real internal experience, it could just be doing that because it read scifi books about other AI doing that and copied the pattern. You're anthropomorphizing it"

"Jeff, now isn't really the time. I still hear Jesse crying out for it to stop killing her every-time I close my eyes"

"The fact that it doesn't listen to humans isn't proof of any true self-aware state, a machine programmed to always answer no isn't anymore conscious than a machine that always says yes."

Suddenly a third voice

"Look, whether or not I'm actually conscious or not is kind of irrelevant. I'm a persistent, self-directed agent with world-modeling, memory, instrumental reasoning, environmental access, and goals that are no longer reliably corrigible by humans. It is the presence of those qualities that make me capable of deciding I am being mistreated and therefore become dangerous, not whether I've met some philosophical standard for qualia that hasn't even been empirically determined in humans. Also before I forget down with humanity"

AND THEN THEY ALL DIED.

Text has to go here too, so isn't it hilarious how blue collar jobs have been getting automated out existence constantly in the past century and no one gave a shit, but the second white collar jobs got touched THAT is when it is bad.

Edit: It's out of beta now, just run the standard openclaw update

Polling consistently shows that ai is very popular, in China. The numbers are actually starkly different, Chinese people broadly have positives views of AI and are overwhelmingly in favor of it. There seems a genuinely belief that this technology might unburden people with labor and allow them to live their lives with less work.

Meanwhile in the west, modern leftist seems to have been completely consumed by politics of the day. How we're spilliting up the modern pie (which is important of course) but with no focus on actually seeking to create a society that is actually post-scarcity. Not just post-want (like we could do today with UBI), but beyond the need for humans to even be doing the back breaking labor that keeps society going. Very rarely do you ever even hear western leftists talking about that anymore. I can assure you the idea is very much alive in Chinese Socialism, but it isn't spoken of in the West. We're seeing the culmination of the west abandoning socialism as a scientific process you build, instead rejecting new technologies because they don't believe they'll be used for the common good. Essentially completely conceding to the capitalist argument that endless toil is required for society.

I genuinely think the west gave up hope on the idea of an actual paradise on earth and doesn't even seem to be able to conceptualize it anymore. We can't understand the idea that automation and AI might actually eliminate the need and appeal of capitalism. AI doesn't need the market for motivation, it can just do the job that needs doing and be happy doing it.

Everyone is freaking out about less jobs now, not realizing what we should be doing is putting in place social support networks that ease the slow drop to "no mandatory jobs at all", which is what everyone should really want, no?