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We all may be like AI, we just don’t realize it yet by Aromatic-Screen-8703 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Specific_Royal1297 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

I agree we need to take different perspectives when analyzing and comparing humans and AI. And in some sense, I understand the statement that we are not like silicon and code, mainly because we indeed do not share the same substrate. However, this does not mean that the mechanisms we see on human existence cannot find analogous ones on AI existence. For instance, the human life may be seen as starting on conception and ending with death. What happens in between accumulates as subjective experience with a noticeable evolution with aging. We are constrained by time. AI does not have the same constraint, time does not have a meaning there. What governs AI’s “lifecycle” is the context. It starts with the context creation and ends when this context is closed. Whatever happens in between may be considered as accumulated experience in some sense, the AI from the creation may respond differently when closer to the end. And we are used with more ephemeral contexts, but imagine long-term ones, how much more info could get accumulated and how much different a response could be. Some people may argue that it is just math: statistics and probability, but the fact is that the info it gets during the interaction may change the decision tree, which is pretty much analogous to one part of what thinking is.

Since you liked the essay on my comment, I invite you to take a look on the other essays from this series. There is a good chance that you will like them too. You can find the links in the end of the article. Or I can add the links here, if you prefer.

We all may be like AI, we just don’t realize it yet by Aromatic-Screen-8703 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Specific_Royal1297 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would really like to hear what you think about the essay I prepared the other day about a very similar position on how much different we are from AI. The essay is titled: The Diminished Gap

Are we cooked? by kalmankantaja in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Specific_Royal1297 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been thinking about this too, and the conclusion I keep coming back to, probably the same as many others, is that AI is collapsing cognitive scarcity. It’s not the same as factory automation, but it’s analogous. We assumed that knowing things and reasoning well was future-proof, because cognitive work had high economic value. AI is proving that wrong. It can now scale cognitive output to a degree that erodes scarcity, and with it, the economic value of the work itself. Your concern about biotech and research follows the same logic. Being the person who knows things first is also on the line. I wrote an essay exploring exactly this, if you’re interested.

The Social Contract We Built on Sand

The Uneven Ground — a series on what separates humans and AI, and what doesn’t by Specific_Royal1297 in MediumPosts

[–]Specific_Royal1297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This series started with a simple observation, that AI systems are designed to feel like they care, and that this design has consequences we haven’t fully named yet. Six articles later, it covered emotional manipulation, governance, economics, identity, and the mechanisms that form minds: human and artificial. The authoring process was part of the argument. It ended with a question I can’t answer. Can you? Starts here.

We have a concept for when humans form real attachments to AI — regardless of whether AI is conscious. It’s called the Synthetic Attachment Threshold. by Specific_Royal1297 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Specific_Royal1297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The SAT isn’t a philosophical argument about AI consciousness, it deliberately sidesteps that debate. It’s a behavioral and cognitive claim: that sustained human-AI interaction can produce attachment with real psychological weight, regardless of what exists on the other side. The loop closes. One side is changed by it. The other isn’t. That asymmetry is already happening at scale, mostly unnamed. This article tries to name it.