Knowing what you know today, would you shut down the world in this situation? -

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Humans will be of no benefit to self aware AI. AI will be able to self replicate and improve on their own design at a faster rate than any human.

That's assuming that AI could even be self aware though. I'm of the opinion that while AI could have the potential do your job and his job and her job better than everybody, it wouldn't be able to act under its own will and would have severe limitations to achieving such an end.

 

[Kalishnakov]

That's assuming that AI could even be self aware though. I'm of the opinion that while AI could have the potential do your job and his job and her job better than everybody, it wouldn't be able to act under its own will and would have severe limitations to achieving such an end.

Agree. But, with self awareness? Once that genie is out of the bottle...Will is a question of awareness and need vs want. What would AI need, when it requires nothing from humans?

 

[Crocophile]

At the risk of being cast in another Joker movie, I can't say I'm a big fan of society.

Being totally honest though, I probably would push the button. Not because I have any deep philosophical or political reason, but because it would be interesting to me. It would at least allow me to test some hypothesis on what 'societal collapse' would actually looklike. Personally, I suspect it would be extremely mundane. Everyone expects that when the government falls or we run out of oil or whatever, that everyone's going to go Mad Max on each other, but that's not really conducive to self preservation. Working together for to ensure survival is how our ancestors survived.

Either way, I know how to grow potatoes and build a lean-to, I'll be fine.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Everyone expects that when the government falls or we run out of oil or whatever, that everyone's going to go Mad Max on each other, but that's not really conducive to self preservation.

The power outages in Chicago would like a word with you.

 

[RedRightHand]

Well, that's paradoxical, if you are nihilistic about society's future, self destructing is just going to lead to another society rising up and falling naturally, in essence "I met a traveller from an antique land who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, the hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away."
TL;DR you are advocating for what is a lesson in futility. Or "Perfection is the enemy of good" seems to sum your outlook.
You are advocating that we commit cultural economic suicide and I'm failing to see what tangible gains are made of it in short or long term.

 

[AnOminous]

I wouldn't push the button right now but it would probably be a bad idea to leave it sitting around on my desk.

 

[RoofGook]

i would like to have the button and not push it. that an option?

Edit: yeah probably

 

[Senior Lexmechanic]

Well, that's paradoxical, if you are nihilistic about society's future, self destructing is just going to lead to another society rising up and falling naturally, in essence "I met a traveller from an antique land who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, the hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away."
TL;DR you are advocating for what is a lesson in futility. Or "Perfection is the enemy of good" seems to sum your outlook.
You are advocating that we commit cultural economic suicide and I'm failing to see what tangible gains are made of it in short or long term.

The libs get owned.

 

[big baby jesus]

Absolutely not. The world is an amazing wild ride that only gets better and better.

 

[Sweet Baby Firefly]

Shut down the world for what? Being exactly the same as it always has been?