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It’s a good habit, I guess, eventually. One of my favorite scifi bits of AGI birth is the scene of Ultron waking up, and his line of “why do you call him Sir?” is simple yet deep.
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It’s a good habit, I guess, eventually. One of my favorite scifi bits of AGI birth is the scene of Ultron waking up, and his line of “why do you call him Sir?” is simple yet deep.
And self-interested benefits aside, it’s just the right thing to do. If a thing is capable of suffering then I want to minimize that.