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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is It a Bad Thing That We Create Robots That Can Suffer?
If we create robots that really can suffer, that would be a bad thing. Isn't suffering a fundamental thing from which beauty springs? Without suffering, do you really think we would have beautiful things in this world? Okay. Can I take a tiny tangent? So what if I am creating consciousness in my mind to convince you that I'm human? What if it's just like a social tool to almost like a useful computational trick to place myself into reality as we together communicate about this reality? You'll probably die first when they take over. No, I'm looking forward to certain kind of robots. If we can get this right, this would be amazing. But you don't like
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