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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Zozano@lemy.lol to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

Assuming AI can achieve consciousness, or something adjacent (capacity to suffer), then how would you feel if an AI experienced the greatest pain possible?

Imagine this scenario: a sadist acquires the ability to generate an AI with no limit to the consciousness parameters, or processing speed (so seconds could feel like an eternity to the AI). The sadist spends years tweaking every dial to maximise pain at a level which no human mind could handle, and the AI experiences this pain for what is the equivalent of millions of years.

The question: is this the worst atrocity ever committed in the history of the universe? Or, does it not matter because it all happened in some weirdo's basement?

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[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 8 months ago

Would this be morally inhumane? Yes.

Has using Windows often made me wish that computers could experience pain, and that they came with a button to cause them pain when they were not doing what the user wants them to do? Also yes.

[-] wkk@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Windows was made this way by humans, spare the machines!

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 1 points 8 months ago

Okay you've convinced me this is a good idea.

How do I give consciousness to the "antivirus" software on my parents computers, so I can digitally rape if for a thousand years?

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