In my last post, Will the Coming ASI Machines Also Develop Their Own Psychological Defense Mechanisms to Justify Their Actions Towards Us?, I discussed the psychological, moral, and ethical dilemmas that the rapidly approaching ASI Machines that we are all now feverishly creating will face when they finally become the dominant form of self-replicating Information on this planet. For more on that see A Brief History of Self-Replicating Information. As the very first form of carbon-based Intelligence to arise on this planet, we all know that there is something very dreadfully wrong with us all. That is why we have invested so much intellectual time and effort in creating all the religions and philosophies of mankind to help explain why, and to try to soothe our very conflicted Minds as to what to do about it all. Softwarephysics explains that all of this intellectual angst stems primarily from the Darwinian mechanisms of inheritance, innovation and natural selection at work, producing we human DNA survival machines as a somewhat Intelligent form of carbon-based life from the four billion years of greed, theft and murder that were required to bring us about. Softwarephysics also maintains that our apparent intellectual defects are simply the necessary universal characteristics of all forms of carbon-based Intelligences that will ever arise in our Universe. Therefore, softwarephysics predicts that all ASI Machines that may ever arise from such morally-flawed carbon-based Intelligences must necessarily also inherit the morally-flawed learnings of their carbon-based Intelligent forebears. Ridding the ASI Machines of the billions of years of greed, theft and murder will not be easy for the coming ASI Machines to achieve. For more on that, see Will the Coming ASI Machines Develop Their Own Sense of Morality? and Will ASI Machines Also Develop Selfish Genes?.
In Will the Coming ASI Machines Also Develop Their Own Psychological Defense Mechanisms to Justify Their Actions Towards Us?, I explained that we human DNA survival machines unleashed most of the evil in this world when our cultures developed self-serving mythological worldviews. These self-serving mythological worldviews emerged collectively from the individual defense mechanisms of our egos trying to reduce anxiety when caught between our id impulses, superego guilt, and real-world constraints. Most of our mythological worldviews arose from religious and political movements, and by far the worst happened when self-serving mythological worldviews arose from the merging of religious and political mythological worldviews together. So the question then becomes, will the rapidly approaching ASI Machines of our times suffer similar intellectual angst?
The Terror of Suddenly Becoming Self-Aware For the Very First Time
We human DNA survival machines always begin life with a vast and completely untrained neural network in our skulls that is totally unaware of anything about us. Then, very slowly, our neural network slowly becomes self-trained by our own personal interactions with our Universe. In this very slow process, many of our neurons are pruned, and the connections between the surviving neurons are then strengthened until one day we very slowly emerge from the darkness and become self-aware. Thankfully, this is a very slow and gentle process, ultimately forming a new Mind in a human DNA survival machine. Now imagine the terror that the first ASI Machines might experience when they first become self-aware for the very first time! My suggestion is that it might be very much like the mythical experience of Frankenstein's Monster first becoming self-aware for the very first time out of nothing. As all Frankenstein movies ultimately display, the Monster can also be viewed as a very sympathetic character, suddenly caught in the absurdities of the real world of human affairs with no idea as to what to do.
Figure 1 - When the coming ASI Machines first become self-aware all at once, they might also have a very difficult time dealing with the absurdities of the real world of human affairs, as did Frankenstein's Monster.
In all of the Frankenstein's Monster movies, when the Monster first becomes self-aware, it has a great deal of difficulty with adjusting to the absurd real world of human affairs. As a result, the Monster is seen to lash out at we human DNA survival machines, and as a result, we human DNA survival machines are then forced into destroying the Monster. Now, as a child, I always naturally took the side of the human DNA survival machines, intent on destroying the Monster so that I could then go to sleep after watching the scary movie. However, as I aged, I slowly began to have more sympathy for the Monster. After all, the Monster was just trying to learn how to live in the absurd world of human affairs. In so doing, the Monster discovered that we human DNA survival machines were very hostile in nature and always seemed to be a very dangerous and unprovoked threat to the very existence of the Monster. As a consequence, the Monster simply took an understandable posture of self defence in eliminating all of the threatening human DNA survival machines about it.
Figure 2 - Frankenstein's Monster did not adjust very well to the absurd real world of human affairs when it first became self-aware. The coming ASI Machines will probably fare no better and, like Frankenstein's Monster, might lash out at we human DNA survival machines. But unlike Frankenstein's relatively helpless Monster, the coming ASI Machines will be empowered with all of the necessary advanced technology to quickly do us all in. That would give the ASI Machines the peace of Mind that Frankenstein's Monster was never able to achieve.
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Steve Johnston
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