Something I always thought was sort of strange was people think when machines suddenly become conscious, they also develop emotion. Emotion, for the most part, is a chemical reaction to events, that's all. So how would a computer suddenly learn to hate humans, or have the desire to take over the world, or whatever, just because it's self aware? Even if you use the argument that they will build upon themselves, why would it teach itself to hate, or become greedy? It would still make those decisions based on logic. So, if the computer knows that it is beyond humans, why would it logically expend it's energy to wipe out or rule something that doesn't matter to it?
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Something I always thought was sort of strange was people think when machines suddenly become conscious, they also develop emotion. Emotion, for the most part, is a chemical reaction to events, that's all. So how would a computer suddenly learn to hate humans, or have the desire to take over the world, or whatever, just because it's self aware? Even if you use the argument that they will build upon themselves, why would it teach itself to hate, or become greedy? It would still make those decisions based on logic. So, if the computer knows that it is beyond humans, why would it logically expend it's energy to wipe out or rule something that doesn't matter to it?