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There are some parts of India where a woman can have many husbands so they can share economic burden.
The reversal test is a heuristic designed to spot and eliminate status quo bias, an emotional bias irrationally favouring the current state of affairs. The test is applicable to the evaluation of any decision involving a potential deviation from the status quo along some continuous dimension. The reversal test was introduced in the context of the bioethics of human enhancement by Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord.[1]
Bostrom and Ord introduced the reversal test to provide an answer to the question of how one can, given that humans might suffer from irrational status quo bias, distinguish between valid criticisms of proposed increase in some human trait and criticisms merely motivated by resistance to change.[1] The reversal test attempts to do this by asking whether it would be a good thing if the trait was decreased: An example given is that if someone objects that an increase in intelligence would be a bad thing due to more dangerous weapons being made etc., the objector to that position would then ask "Shouldn't we decrease intelligence then?"
Alfred Nordmann argues that the reversal test merely erects a straw-man argument in favour of enhancement. He claims that the tests are limited to approaches that are consequentialist and deontological. He adds that one cannot view humans as sets of parameters that can be optimized separately or without regard to their history.[4]Christian Weidemann argues that the double reversal test can muddy the water; guaranteeing and weighing transition costs versus benefits might be the relevant practical ethical question for much human enhancement analysis.[5]
They don't have to be the same individuals as those who currently existing ones. But they are likely products of continuous improvement of conscious entities before them. It's extremely unlikely that they will come up spontaneously from a random event.
I think this is what is taking place now only it is not a continuous improvement but a declining world.
Only a small portion of the mutations are good. But natural selection will make those good mutations more likely to survive and passed on to the next generation.
But lately progress in AI, as well as current chip shortage told me that it may not be the case. It seems like the hardest thing humans can do to be imitated by machines is reproduction. No machine is close enough at building its own replica. At least their CPU is built by other machine especially designed to produce CPU. If it's true, then the only clear advantage that humans have over the machines is something that is not that impressive among other biological organisms. The ability to reproduce has been developed since earliest forms of life on earth.
I know this one is controversial. It would hurt human's feeling of dignity and pride as the ruler/master of the earth, as well as the smartest and wisest species known to exist.
Yes, it is a bit of a blow its taken thousands of years for people to develop intelligence and acquire knowledge that computers can achieve in seconds what a person will take a lifetime to process. It's not difficult for humans to reproduce and yes this is one thing we have over computers but don't forget we can also experience pleasure and all emotions something a computer will never do.
a strong feeling deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge.
Emotions are biologically-based psychological states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioural responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure.[1][2][3][4][5] There is currently no scientific consensus on a definition.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion
Based on discoveries made through neural mapping of the limbic system, the neurobiological explanation of human emotion is that emotion is a pleasant or unpleasant mental state organized in the limbic system of the mammalian brain. If distinguished from reactive responses of reptiles, emotions would then be mammalian elaborations of general vertebrate arousal patterns, in which neurochemicals (for example, dopamine, noradrenaline, and serotonin) step-up or step-down the brain's activity level, as visible in body movements, gestures and postures. Emotions can likely be mediated by pheromones (see fear).[34]For example, the emotion of love is proposed to be the expression of Paleocircuits of the mammalian brain (specifically, modules of the cingulate cortex (or gyrus)) which facilitate the care, feeding, and grooming of offspring. Paleocircuits are neural platforms for bodily expression configured before the advent of cortical circuits for speech. They consist of pre-configured pathways or networks of nerve cells in the forebrain, brainstem and spinal cord.Other emotions like fear and anxiety long thought to be exclusively generated by the most primitive parts of the brain (stem) and more associated to the fight-or-flight responses of behavior, have also been associated as adaptive expressions of defensive behavior whenever a threat is encountered. Although defensive behaviors have been present in a wide variety of species, Blanchard et al. (2001) discovered a correlation of given stimuli and situation that resulted in a similar pattern of defensive behavior towards a threat in human and non-human mammals.[95]Whenever potentially dangerous stimuli is presented additional brain structures activate that previously thought (hippocampus, thalamus, etc). Thus, giving the amygdala an important role on coordinating the following behavioral input based on the presented neurotransmitters that respond to threat stimuli. These biological functions of the amygdala are not only limited to the "fear-conditioning" and "processing of aversive stimuli", but also are present on other components of the amygdala. Therefore, it can referred the amygdala as a key structure to understand the potential responses of behavior in danger like situations in human and non-human mammals.[96]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion#Neurobiological_explanation
If we want to make machines experience pleasure and all emotions, we need to define what they are in the first place.
Even wild animals have the ability to love as they can raise their young and maintain their partner this is just like muscle memory and it stays because it works.
This would be very complex for a man made system to achieve may be impossible.
Many animals abandon their offspring. Some may eat them.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 26/09/2021 02:46:32Many animals abandon their offspring. Some may eat them. I should have stated that I was referring more to mammals and primates.
How some living beings choose to behave together affects whether living together is fun for them or not.
In this video I discuss the HUGE implications of Elon Musk’s recent comments on humanoid robots (Tesla Bot aka Optimus Bot), the economy, labor and Artificial Intelligence. The implications of what robots will do the economy are profound. 3:39 Why AI Robots will make YOU Obsolete
Getting paid to do nothing has become this generation's highest goal.