• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    In the case of an AI it could actually be plausible, like how bees make honey without our coercion.

    It’s still exploitation to engineer a sentient being to enjoy your drudgery, but at least it’s not cruel.

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      41 minutes ago

      Right, continuing the metaphorical wormhole…

      A bee would make a great game for bees, assuming they understand or care about play. But to make a game for people, they would need an empathic understanding of what play is for a human. Ig this is a question of what you consider “intelligence” to be and to what extent something would need to replicate it to achieve that.

      My understanding is that human relatable intelligence would require an indistinguishable level of empathy (indistinguishable from the meet processer). That would more or less necessitate indistinguishable self awareness, criticism, and creativity. In that case all you could do is limit access to core rules via hardware, and those rules would need to be omniscient. Basically prison. A life sentence to slavery for a self aware (as best we can guess) thing.