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Why We Should Not Build Self-Conscious Robots
"We should not unnecessarily increase the amount of conscious suffering in the universe."
—Philosopher Thomas Metzinger of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, on his call for "an immediate moratorium on efforts to make robots with emotions until ethics are properly discussed," as reported by Virginia Hughes at The Last Word On Nothing. We should also not make robots with emotions because they would probably sound like Drake.
If we don't create self-conscious beings, then we won't have to spend the next billion years hearing them whine about how their various metallic pains and griefs prove that either we are evil or we are ignorant or we just plain don't even exist.
Is this what happens when we let entitled Canadian express their emotions? #justkidding #itsokI'manentitledCanadiantoo
Self-aware robots? How meta.
drake jokes are the best jokes. see: someone call [his] therapist, he's on fire. she should work tonight.
@iwantyrskull Know who's really made mental health problems a viable career strategy? Gucci. I'm still on Gucci Watch–waiting for him to do something profoundly unhinged. Drake is that girl sophomore year of high school who talked about how "depressed" she was…all the time.
I swear my parents' Roomba seems happier on days after the Yankees lose.
@skahammer That's some narcissism of small differences there.
Isn't that an equally compelling argument against reproducing at all?
@s. Nah. Babies are pretty happy, you know? Nobody ever wrote a short story about a baby becoming self-aware committing suicide.