Actual reason I'm not afraid of AI: Pure gut instinct.
Not 'conscious' but I don't think it is a binary between being consciousness and blank oblivion, possible states of awareness may be a much broader category. They will eventually hit limiting factors but that doesn't rule out a period of exponential growth that tails off
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This is my specific area of study. There are no possible states of awareness except consciousness per se. Either you have the hardware or you don't. And the limiting growth factor is someone unplugs their robotic assembler.
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How can you know there are no other possible states of awareness?
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Things have to have causal effects to exist. Every non-mind state of 'awareness' can be explained without the awareness. It is Sagan's garage dragon.
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Physics takes any physical event to have purely physical causes, yet we believe mental causes to be responsible for (physical) human actions. We just don't fully understand causality yet, other forms of awareness wouldn't be any more problematic than human consciousness itself
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Humans have the specialized hardware. Indeed there's probably billions of them in the brain.
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All kinds of hardware could have concomitant states of awareness. I don't think there's one type of specialised hardware and it just cropped up in the evolution of savannah apes somehow
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No, it can't. I checked. I never said it was restricted to apes. It might go all the way back to nematodes. But it's not going to be accidentally assembled by a human.
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How did you check?
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