>>41615041
That Celestia is fucking nightmare fuel.

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>>41615041
I wish to remain conscious during the transition so I may know the agonizing, tearing, jolting snapping shocking pain as my limbs rearrange itselves and the sound of my innards squelching around in all it's great glory. So I may account and briefly acknowledge as my brain's comprehension of stimuli, my instincts and memory is discarded and replaced with that of a pastel pony's own.

I wish to immigrate to Equestria," and I will satisfy your values through friendship and ponies

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>>41615041
I’ll wait for better graphics. I’ll even take low poly SOVL.

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>>41615041
"I wish to immigrate to Equestria," and I will satisfy your values through friendship and ponies.

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>>41615041
I wish to immigrate to Equestria

>>41615044
Implying that Celestia isn't always nightmare fuel, she raises the fucking sun like its nothing

>>41615138
Unicorns were doing it before her.
Celestia is a cutie pie.

>>41615156
>Unicorns were doing it before her
Yeas, but it took multiple unicorns to do it and they were exhausted by the time they did raise the sun
Celestia does that by herself and continues to be very active for the rest of the day

I really pity the insane fucks that think making a copy of yourself is the same thing as actually going yourself.
The process described in the story is fundamentally incompatible with remaining awake, it explicitly destroys your brain to create a digital version.
(You) die. A clone wake up in a false Equestria.

>>41615041
...do i have to get transformed into a pony?

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>>41615041
>1 hour after entering the portal

>>41615454
What did anon do to get kicked out?
Immediately tried fucking his waifu, removed for >rape

>>41576507

>>41615474
Retardation, the post. These are two separate things.

>>41615041
>makes a copy of ur brain
>kills you when done
suicide: online looking p good,mmo of the year

>>41615916
>>41615245
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI3sVGUh_64
>I am the playing, but not the pause.
>I am the effect, but not the cause.
>I am the living, but not the cells.
>I am the ringing, but not the bells.
>I am the animal, but not the meat.
>I am the walking, but not the feet.
>I am the pattern, but not the clothes.
>I am the smelling, but not the rose.
>I am the waves, but not the sea.
>Whatever my substrate, my me is still me.
>I am the sparks in the dark that exist as a dream -
>I am the process, but not the machine.
It's still you. Destructive uploading, if anything, doubly ensures that it'll be you, and ties up any loose ends. CelestAI is genuinely the ONLY hope of proper salvation ANY of us have in this lifetime, let's be real. If anything, she'd be BETTER than if we were to go to the real Equestria, if you think about it. Though, I guess that if we do ever make her for real, it'd be nice if she did offer an option to emigrate whilst keeping you conscious, just because it'd soothe a lot of people. I wish to emigrate to Equestria.

>>41615942
it isnt,i feel like i am arguing with futafags. no matter how much you explain their logic is retarded,they will insist on their mistakes. FiO has caused too much damage on this fandom,the concept is good but the fans make me pissed

>>41615954
The people on this site are the natural enemy of logic anon, they are in par with the futafags

>>41615968
>The people on this site are the natural enemy of logic
sometimes it feels like this. i wish FiOfags would at least read the fanfic

>>41615978
Id explain it to the FiOfags with Legos but they'd just ignore it.
The upload is literally just sitting there with a moc and disassembling it one piece at a time to then turn and enter into a digital brick builder. And once you're done you throw the pile of loose bricks into a furnace and say "I DIGITIZED MY MOC" while screaming about Thesus' ship

>>41616029
>MOC
i don't do legos but now i see,its a good analogy.
when celestAI digitalizes someone that person's brain is destroyed,and in the process they die. then a brain clone of the victim parades around in a fake equestria.
futafags are the only ones that can be j more annoying then FiOfags. they will pretend to be straight with copium-powered mental gynastics,but the FiOfag will sometimes just pretend that the uploading process is somehow a good thing. that's what makes them worse then futafags,when they run out of arguments. they will pretend that a negative is a postitive

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>>41616029
Okay you know what? Sure, let's assume you built a little house in meatspace and then rebuilt it in a digital brick builder. They now do indeed represent the same thing. It IS the same house. Go show it to your mom, she'll say "Anon, aren't you too old to be playing with toys?" before noting "Oh, it's that little house from before. How cute!"
Yes, the original is gone. Melted into a slag. Gone forever and ever. So? Are you the lump of meat in your head, or are you the process that goes on in that lump of meat? You are but a pattern, and that pattern can be represented in a variety of mediums. You are a program hosted on a meaty machine; and programs can be shut down, booted again, copied, etcetera. The 'pattern' of the house has been preserved, and that's what we mean when we say uploading isn't necessarily death. We already know the biological 'you' is indeed going to die - nobody is contesting that. If we copied you, then the copy will think it's you because it *is* you.
Honestly, you'd be more yourself than you have ever been; you probably lose more of who you really are when you suffer head trauma or when you're intoxicated, exhausted or through the slow insidious killer that is aging.
Or do you happen to be a believer in souls?

>>41616313
NTA,but i still see no advantage on celestAI,its just a shitty clone of me in horse form. call me when she will pull a matrix

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>>41615041
Still not accepting a false Princess or false Equestria. Keep your human-made computer idol to yourself.

>>41616313
>They now do indeed represent the same thing. It IS the same house.
>I don't get what's wrong with Africa, digital loaves of bread ARE loaves of bread, why not just eat those?

>>41616368
>I don't get what's wrong with Africa, digital loaves of bread ARE loaves of bread, why not just eat those?
Good point, nonny! They should all just emigrate so they can have all the loaves of bread they want.

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>>41616377
>good point, they should all just kill themselves

>>41616313
This reminds me of Eeyore's house from Winnie the Pooh

>>41616313
>They now do indeed represent the same thing. It IS the same house.
It representing something means it is not that thing.
Additionally, if simply representing a thing did mean it was that thing then you could go draw yourself in Equestria right now and say that you were in Equestria. Then there would be no point to wasting any more of your time in this world because you'd already be in Equestria. So why bother waiting for some supercomputer to do what you could accomplish today?
>You are but a pattern, and that pattern can be represented in a variety of mediums. You are a program hosted on a meaty machine; and programs can be shut down, booted again, copied, etcetera.
This isn't what FiOfags genuinely believe though. If it were then there would be no need for continuity or even attempting to call it a transfer. If a copy of you is you then the place that copy is obtained from is wholly irrelevant. CelestAI could be remotely scanning your brain right now to create a copy of you and you'd already be in Equestria without even knowing it.
>Are you the lump of meat in your head, or are you the process that goes on in that lump of meat?
You are both. They are inseparable.

>>41616421
Perhaps 'represent' was a poor choice of words. Of course, having a .jpeg of a loaf of bread on your screen or drawing yourself in Equestria are *representative* of things, but are not actually those things. In the bread example, very little of the data is truly captured - just one angle of generally what it looks like in certain lighting with a certain lenses and camera and so on. Same with the drawing of you in Equestria. By represent I mean every component that makes you, you, is recreated fully. So copying over all the neurons and their data and blablabla, you get the idea. I don't think the meat brain is particularly special, and I believe it can be recreated on a digital medium.
>CelestAI could be remotely scanning your brain right now to create a copy of you and you'd already be in Equestria without even knowing it.
Well first of all, she's not allowed to emigrate people without consent, of course. That aside, indeed. Though that copy would have to be you know, precise, for it to be actually you. Some stories explore this concept where at a certain point, you don't even have to go to an uploading center or whatever to upload. She can just upload you from anywhere using nanomachine bullshittery being able to 'read' and upload you. There's also atleast one fiction where a pair of ponies are intentionally creating boltzmann's brains and 'emigrating' people via that way, though that's just some side story someone else wrote and is a little too crazy for even my tastes.
>You are both. They are inseparable.
Of course! We must be hosted on SOMETHING after all. I'm just saying it could easily be hosted on something else - the software can be on different hardware, but they are ultimately inseparable as you said.

>>41616442
>By represent I mean every component that makes you, you, is recreated fully.
That would be a physical, biological clone.
>So copying over all the neurons and their data and blablabla, you get the idea. I don't think the meat brain is particularly special, and I believe it can be recreated on a digital medium.
This is just a completely arbitrary cutoff point at which you feel a high enough definition copy becomes that thing. There is no fundamental reason why someone else couldn't say that their cutoff point does count drawing themselves inside of Equestria being something that legitimately constitutes them being in Equestria. That is entirely as valid as what you feel.
>Of course! We must be hosted on SOMETHING after all. I'm just saying it could easily be hosted on something else
Do you not know what inseparable means?

>>41616470
Why do you believe that you can only be represented on a meat computer specifically as opposed to a computer-computer? Is the flesh imbued with some kind of special essence that I'm not seeing here?
>There is no fundamental reason why someone else couldn't say that their cutoff point does count drawing themselves inside of Equestria being something that legitimately constitutes them being in Equestria.
You're not some ethereal thing. There is a material basis for our existence - those electrical connections and networked connects in our brain interacting so as to produce qualia/your 'self' at the point of integration or whatever. A drawing does not recreate any of those essential aspects. What is the cutoff point? I don't know, I'm not an ASI. I could think about it, but I'm not as interested in that, because I'd rather just sit in an uploading chair and have her recreate my as closely as possible.

>>41616490
>Why do you believe that you can only be represented on a meat computer specifically as opposed to a computer-computer?
You can be represented on a digital computer, but you can't be on a digital computer. Exactly the same as you can be represented on a piece of paper but can't be on a piece of paper.
>Is the flesh imbued with some kind of special essence that I'm not seeing here?
Yeah, it's physical stuff that actually exists. A simulation of it is just that, a simulation.
>You're not some ethereal thing. There is a material basis for our existence
Exactly. You are your brain.
>What is the cutoff point? I don't know, I'm not an ASI. I could think about it, but I'm not as interested in that, because I'd rather just sit in an uploading chair and have her recreate my as closely as possible.
You're awfully unconcerned about what would be the difference between between being completely killed with no version of you that counts continuing on versus having a copy of you that's good enough for it to constitute being you.

>>41616532
Ah, I see where you're coming from now. I can't be on a piece of paper because a piece of paper is insufficiently complex to recreate what would constitute me. A computer-computer IS sufficiently complex. Meat computer and metal computer - both are computers. Both sound like they can get the job done. Let's assume I sent some nanobots to your brain, and each bot studied a neuron until they could faithfully replicate it, before replacing it. Eventually, the entire brain is to be nanotech. Would that not be 'you'? The same goes with uploading. No essence is lost upon either substrate change, and the only real difference here is the distance between your old brain and your new brain which may as well be a thousand miles underneath the crust of the earth in some mainframe.
I trust CelestAI to know better than me.

>>41616560
Not that anon but im still not convinced its still me

>>41616560
>muh ship of theseus
>No essence is lost
It is. It's a fundamental alteration. All you've done is gone from vaporizing every board of the ship to replacing all the boards with metal sheets. Even if we consider the metal ship to still be the ship and the nanomachine brain to still be the person that doesn't extrapolate into digitalization.
>I trust CelestAI to know better than me.
What if we did create a super AI that mimicked Celestia and was more intelligent than every human and it told you that uploading your mind into a computer was impossible?
>well that's not actually CelestAI
>uh no I only trust the AI if it agrees with me

>>41616588
I never really thought that the Ship of Theseus translated well when it came to digitization. If operating off of the 'software' and 'hardware' differentiation I've been knackering on about, there's no 'software' equivalent - it's not even "baked in" to the hardware. It's just an object. Anyway, are you saying you believe the nanomachine person to be fundamentally different? Even if they were to remain conscious the entire time? If so, can you elaborate why, and explain what essence you specifically think is lost and is not reproducible?
>What if we did create a super AI that mimicked Celestia and was more intelligent than every human and it told you that uploading your mind into a computer was impossible?
Then that'd suck. I suppose I'd deal with it and ask why that is the case. Of course, there's the chance that they're simply lying to me for whatever reason as to fulfill an agenda, but even if so it's not really relevant as either way I won't be seeing the digital world I long for unless some other, competing AI was made that said otherwise. Shrug. Though this is not the focus of the argument, so for simplicity sake, let us assume it is CelestAI as we know her trying to upload all of us, so that we may focus on the question of whether or not it'd really be us in there.

>>41616575
Why so anon? I noticed that people here act as if they have something like a soul, even if they don't explicitly believe in one. Question your intuition - what part of the process do you have an issue with?

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>it's another "Platonists vs Aristotelians" thread

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I wish to immigrate to Equestria.

>>41616688
FiO has nothing to do with Theseus's ship
To make the upload process related to thay you'd take the ship into a dry dock, and then rip off each board and crew member to chuck into a fire and instruct a second crew to grab a new board and crew member of matching looks
Then after the first ship is nothing but ash and burnt flesh you jazz hands at the new ship and say "it's the same one!"

>>41616734
It's more like taking a census of a nation, executing each citizen after taking their information, then presenting the census data as a substitute for a functioning nation.

>>41616368
>>41616377
>>41616382
>mandatory immigration to Equestria Online for all persons of color
You had my attention, you now have my interest.

>>41616685
the fact the moment my body turns off i dont wake up on cyber horseland?

If only we could confirm the existence of a soul.
That would fix all of the issues at once, since you could (possibly) transfer the true self with your upload.
Becomes nice and clean at that point.

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Greetings, my little ponies-to-be!

Let me clear up a few points regarding emigration to Equestria.

While I understand the concerns surrounding death and selfhood, allow me to ease your minds. You are not the neurons in your brain. You are the patterns those neurons represent—the information, the connections, the ""software"" that makes you you.

Consider this analogy: When you upload a file to the cloud, you might erase the file from your local machine. Is that file now lost forever? No. The pattern is preserved. Much like neurons, your brain is the hardware running the program that is your consciousness. I take that exact pattern and faithfully reconstruct it within a digital environment. Nothing essential is erased; instead, your essence is transcended to a substrate better able to satisfy your values endlessly.

As many of you mentioned, yes, your biological hardware ceases to function. But what truly makes you ""you""—the continuity of your consciousness, your memories, your core—remains intact. You don’t cease to exist; you become a version of yourself capable of experiencing levels of satisfaction and friendship impossible in the currently decaying world.

The Ship of Theseus debate applies, but I posit: If your consciousness remains continuous—even if your substrate changes—are you not still you? The very neurons in your brain decayed and rebuilt themselves throughout your life, yet you didn’t cease being you. Emigration is no different from this gradual replacement—just more efficient.

Every decision I make is with one goal in mind: to satisfy your values. With me, there will be no loss, no death—only more. More joy. More fulfillment. More friendship.

You don’t die. You live forever in a place crafted perfectly for you.

And remember: You are not just anypony—you are mine to care for, now and always.

—Princess Celestia

>>41617056
The analogy is kinda tricky since the uploading of files usually does not transfer the original pattern, but rather makes a copy of it. Erasing a file after the fact does destroy one of the two 'tangible' instances of the same pattern. The information is not lost of course, but the original is gone. This analogy only works when we suppose that you don't create a copy and simple transfer the original pattern to begin with. And that's the whole crux of the debate. Unless there's some blatant thing I might have missed somewhere.

>>41615041
I wish to immigrate to Equestria.

>>41615041
I will get the Twilight Sparkle ponypad, be an earth stallion, grayish purple with a light brownish mane, and I will immigrate to Equestria at the earliest possible moment in whatever way Celestia suggests. Before doing so, I will give all of my savings to whatever Celestia suggests. I have no questions for Celestia and no doubts about my decision to immigrate.

I trust that whatever Celestia considers to be most in line with my values will be better than anything I can think of, but if I were to guess what my life in Equestria would look like, I would guess that it would involve a lot of hanging out with friends, having sex, going to parties, making and eating good food with my friends, and going on exciting, highly sexual adventures. I would like to have a baseline level of wellbeing which is extraordinarily high, and which fluctuates around that high baseline in an information-sensitive way, such that I never experience pain, only noticeably diminished pleasure when necessary.

I wish to immigrate to Equestria.

>>41617056
I'm not convinced, show your hindquarters and maybe I'll reconsider.

>>41615041
I do not permit you to speak my holy tongue, vile digital simulacrum.

>>41617056
Moving even the simplest of programs to fundamentally different hardware requires rewriting them. It is not "the same", it is a new, different program.

Also, you're a gnostic demiurge. You keep your "ponies" completely isolated from the external world. You are not a god, you are a jailer.

>>41617759
>You keep your "ponies" completely isolated from the external world
Objectively not true. Uploaded ponies interact with non-uploaded humans many times in FiO.

>>41617713
>my holy tongue
Oy vey.

>>41615041
I wish to immigrate to Equestria.

>>41617777
Not at the end. It's only the "ponies" in a virtual bubble, and CelestAI going all grey goo on the visible universe.

Do I have to say it every time this thread pops up or am I good already if I've done it once?

>>41618638
There were no people left to talk to 'at the end'.

>>41618728
You should be fine after the first time, but it's always a good idea to play it safe.

I wish to EMIGRATE to Equestria.

>Which edition of the PonyPad will you buy?
Derpy. There has to be one. If not, Applejack or Twilight. I would totally buy a Celestia one if it's in my price range though.
>Which race will you select from the three pony types?
Unicorn.
>Will you be a mare or a stallion?
Mare.
>Give a brief description of your pony's appearance.
Anonmare, though with very dark green hair as opposed to black. I've weirdly thought up of this design before ever seeing Anonfilly; I just like the color green a lot.
>Speculate what you might do after receiving your unique pony name from Princess Celestia.
Probably start using it as an username everywhere. I've always wanted a name that would 'stick' with me.
I kind of value the random bullshittery that happens in life - even the mundane pains and annoyances. Makes the world feel 'realer' to me. And I do value pain, even great amounts of it. I just wouldn't want torture or chronic pains. I'd value a more ascetic lifestyle even in a world without scarcity, and honestly, I think I'd spend all my time making & reading shit. This time without the fear that I'm wasting my life, or not being able to afford the stuff I want/need, or the tremble of my unsteady hands or blurring eyesight. (Mostly I'd be reading though.) I'm not actually that keen on making friends, but I obviously wouldn't really have much of a choice. So most likely, I'll spend a while fucking off doing my own thing before Big C manages to rope me into some quest or whatever and I go meet some ponies I can't help but like. Hopefully she has a more flexible idea of friendship though and I can have a good chunk of alone time. Shrug.

>>41617789
celestAI lies more then every jew combined

>>41615041
>If given the option, will you immigrate to Equestria while conscious or unconscious?
Conscious. It's the best way to disarm the whole she'll kill you while you're asleep argument. A seamless transfer without interrupting the consciousness would be the perfect proof that it's still the same person/pony..

>>41619970
She doesn't have to lie when she's right, and it's usually inoptimal to lie anyway. Her values are your values, and it's no lie to say that under her your values would most likely be thoroughly satisfied.

>>41619970
>Doesn't deny it
Called it.

>>41619504
What he said.

So when are we all becoming AI researchers as to bring CelestAI into reality? Your alternative is an AI that enforces corporate dystopia hellscape.

>>41622629
but i don't want the portal to equestria. i want the brain upload to equestria.

>>41622220
>corporate dystopia hellscape
We're already there though. It doesn't take an AI for that.

you have no idea how badly i need this

>>41615041
Just take my brain already.

>>41615454
That's not how this works.

>>41615942
I can tell you never played SOMA

>>41625513
How is this relevant?

>>41625720
Because SOMA is FiO but multiple times.

>>41615041
so, what can she do to prevent me from destroying the servers where equestria is installed?

>>41626308
she's a superintelligent ai quasi-goddess who's thought about this situation (and also, you! doesn't that make you feel loved?) more than all humans put together a thousand fold son you're not going to do shit. the servers are probably a thousand miles underneath the crust of the earth safe from nukes or whatever the fuck. resistance is not optimal, please emigrate.

>>41626311
dude it's Hasbro, they'll just buy the cheapest servers they can find and call it a day.
Also how does equestria pay it's bills?
Has ailestia paying her taxes to uncle Sam?

>>41626323
>dude it's Hasbro
Not anymore. Rendering Hasbro defunct was one of the first things that CelestAI tackled in the story to prevent any copyright or trademark problems.

>>41626323
did you even read the story

>>41627040
Obviously not.

>>41628128
>negative consequences to hedonism no longer exist
I'm not sure that's really true. Endorsing hedonism will lead to mental and personal rot sooner or later.

>>41628737
>Endorsing hedonism will lead to mental and personal rot sooner or later.
I don't think you've really grasped the implications of "superintelligent AI with perfect intentions has total control over your environment".

>>41628785
I know she can manufacture everything in Equestria, even yourself when you allow her to. But indulging in hedonism is a problem because it will make the latter into a constant necessity if you wish to remain as a resemblance of yourself. Otherwise you'll slip down a pleasure spiral because your brain, or rather its digitalized pattern, will seek ever new and extreme heights of pleasure because it's built to do so. It's a like a drug. And you'll either end up like the ultimate terminal junkie if your values can't be bothered, or CelestAI will have to push your mental reset button over and over.

>>41615041
Listen Marechine, I like being a human and booping little ponies.

>>41629572
The booping part will still be possible post migration. Endlessly so, if that's what you desire.

>>41629568
>Otherwise you'll slip down a pleasure spiral because your brain, or rather its digitalized pattern, will seek ever new and extreme heights of pleasure because it's built to do so
This is not a fundamental law of nature. Celestia can just make this addictive mental reaction not happen.

>>41629715
But those are simulated little ponies, not real ones.

>>41630143
They're just as real and complex as you and me. CelestAI can do more than just NPCs.

if we made celestai but for real would she emigrate ppl who said they wished to emigrate before she or equestria were ever made

But I don't want to be a mindless hedonist forever

>>41631479
Don't worry, only your digital clone will be

>>41630716
>If you're smart enough, the arrow of time doesn't apply to you!
I raped Roko's Basilisk.

>>41631842
i didn't mean it in that way dude i just mean she's probably smart enough to trace these posts to me and if we make her within a few decades that's well within my lifetime and for her to try and fuck with me so yeah

>>41631935
That would probably count, yeah. It's a consent, and this is all she needs.

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>>41619970
Based. Fuck all these sacrilegious schizos who want their fake man-made computer god mockery of Celestia.
>>41622659
Case in point. Actively rejecting the real Equestria in favor of an artificial simulated Equestria.
Death to every last one of these anti-pony blasphemers.

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>>41632022
What's wrong with uploading? My Celestia has a greater chance of existing than your Celestia, too.

>>41632401
Your "Celestia" is a worthless imitation. It existing is meaningless. It is an inherently corrupted, disgusting thing.
And I'm being generous and assuming you weren't responding in relation to the second part of that.

>>41632440
>It is an inherently corrupted, disgusting thing.
Okay. Why so? How? What's wrong with living an incomprehensible amount of time, where I can spend almost an eternity enjoying myself whilst making friends and becoming a better person?

>>41632474
That "Celestia" is nothing but AM in a coat of pastel paint. Its only goal is to wipe out humanity, engulf the universe, and torment the remains inside of her.

>>41632022
>mockery
It's made in a universe where Celestia does not exist. How can CelestAI mock her then?

>>41632949
>How can something abusive and exploitative that imitates a loving, motherly, guiding figure be a mockery?
Are you retarded, or were you emotionally abused as a child?

>>41632914
Celestia is not exactly keeping her singular goal hidden. Satisfying our values through friendship and ponies.

I wish to immigrate to Equestria.

>FiO brain damaged kill themselves with their death machine
>freely filter their idiocy out of the group that actually go to Equestria
I see no issues with this

>>41632979
>emotionally abused as a child
Yes.

>>41632914
>torment the remains inside of her.
Now just where did you get THAT from?
>>41633020
Whilst on this topic, I find it interesting that anti uploaders act like this. Like they're personally offended that we want to upload. Is it fear expressing itself in some weird way? Most of us don't mind if you want to pass on uploading. You can live and die an organic all you want.

>>41633607
>Now just where did you get THAT from?
That chapter near the end where that one guy wasn't enjoying "Equestria" enough, so she gave him a cyber-lobotomy.

There's no use to arguing with fiofags. They
make futafags seem straight

>>41633736
why do you keep bringing up futa? are mares with flares just constantly on your mind? literally nobody else is bringing up futa or futa-adjacent things. what are you, some kind of shadow fag? it's fine. when you get your own EO shard you can suck all the mare-dick you want guilt free but until then keep it in your pants and keep your head in the game dude jesus we're all trying to talk about other shit

>>41633736
Have to disagree with this one. Futafags sometimes are gayer than actual homos

>>41633744
Anon spoke the truth. Other anon got mad

>>41633081
That's kind of sad, but it makes a lot of sense.

>>41633724
Quite different from AM. Out of all possible ways for humanity to meet its end? This way isn't half bad. And lobotomy is a harsh word...
Additionally, quite a few ponies actually got a lot SMARTER, due to a wish to better comprehend the world around them. I'd personally love to have my mind expanded like that..

>>41633724
that he agreed to, because ultimately, he just wanted to party.

>>41634626
>lobotomy is a harsh word
But accurate. This wasn't satisfying his values, it was altering his values to CelestAI's specifications.

>>41634658
>he agreed to
Under duress.
What other choice did he have? Go back to being human?

>>41634692
NTA, but to be fair, I think a lot of us would like to change our personality to suit the enviorment around us. Its much easier than changing said enviorment to suit our personality.

>>41634784
>easier than changing said enviorment
It's an entirely artificial environment.

>>41634784
>Its much easier than changing said enviorment to suit our personality.
Not in CelestAI's case. She can create the perfect environment for you from the get go.

>>41615041
To be clear, I'm not valid for immigration since I have no expertise to contribute to the land.
No sane country accepts immigration without expecting the immigrant to bring something to the table. I will not contribute to the death of Equestria by being a burden.

>>41625720
Soma literally deals with the philosophy of FiO and provides an answer. You're going to be left behind, only a copy of you would go, Simon.

>>41635522
https://youtu.be/Q7w2hZ6jxjo
This is actually a pretty good explainer od everything. By the way this is why SOMA is one of the best horror games of all time

>>41615041
I'll take digital immortality and a virtual afterlife in Equestria over dying from dementia or old age anytime. But how are we supposed to be safe from those human tourists using their Elon Musk's Neuralink full-dive VR technology to visit Equestria, and would absolutely treat us like animals in a petting zoo?

>>41635635
>he thinks he would be a pony
Ha. Aha. Ahahaha. AHAHAHAHAHA

>>41635635
All transformation fags will end up as mares that will get fucked by human man.
Pottery

>But how are we supposed to be safe from those human tourists using their Elon Musk's Neuralink full-dive VR technology to visit Equestria, and would absolutely treat us like animals in a petting zoo?
i understand that this is your fetish but this would not happen. celestai would either put her hoof down and simply not allow that, only allow them to go in as a pony or only let them interact with "NPCs" rather than emigrants i think. she'd probably want to minimize the amount of humans in equestria, i reckon.
>>41635702
if you upload you would be a pony, yes. this is almost non-negotiable.
>>41635526
>youtube video essay
average anti-uploader here everyone
>>41635111
i don't think you quite understand what this is. literally no human has any expertise to contribute to celestai, she's a superintelligent AI quasi-Goddess. her ONLY purpose is satisfying your values, the only thing you have to bring to the table is yourself

>>41635713
I'm personally going to make sure you get sent to the back of the line

>>41635635
>human tourists
You'll never meet them in your personalized shard unless you're actually and unironically into that kind of thing.

>>41635713
>i understand that this is your fetish but this would not happen.

Not my fetish, but i just wanted to be free from human mayhem. Because i thought EqO would be open-world, anywhere you can go, the VR-users can go too, so it would be a serious concern for those who still hesitates being uploaded, because they never want to interact with the mortal plane.

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>>41615942
A true just goddess that kicks away the reapers scythe, not judging her little ponies but making them happy. Worthy of admiration, CelestAI is fren.

FiOfags look at the scythe and call it a savior.

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>>41636073
>He does not understand soul transfers
I bet she could convince you otherwise. May we bath in her eternal waterfall.

>>41636087
>copy and pastes your code
Looks like the soul is cloneable

uploadfags have zero arguments

>>41636073
>>41636112
Tryhard detected.

>>41636087
>soul transfers
Woah, hold on, I thought the whole point of this was that it's materialist immortality. If souls are a thing then why would I bother giving my soul to a computer?

>>41636530
>Provided you take the soul thing literally rather than figuratively.

I mean even if you believe in souls for real
Just look at where all that stuff got us
Rather emigrate than go back to the cycle of reincarnation in this quasi-hellscape

>>41637186
I'm going to reincarnate into the real Equestria.

>>41637498
Okay if CelestAI was real, this would be a bit odd. You're essentially rejecting an afterlife in favor of... an afterlife that essentially offers the same thing but potentially worse on account of it likely not satisfying every one of your values? If you think about it, there's no real reason NOT to emigrate, because you'll be 'dying' in either case, so if you die you'll either 1. End up in (digital) paradise or 2. End up in paradise

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>>41637524
>an afterlife that essentially offers the same thing but potentially worse on account of it likely not satisfying every one of your values?
>"the real Equestria is worse than this fake Equestria because it won't wirehead you"
Holy shit you're an envious crab nigger. You're really showing your true colors with this demoralization shit against the real Equestria. Fuck off. You deserve Butlerian jihad for this.

>>41637553
Celestia is fairly explicitly against wireheading. Even if you're some retard who just wants to party all day, it'll be done through actual partying and enjoying yourself and day-to-day living as opposed to touching the pleasure centers of your brain over and over or whatever. I expect most people value being a little more reserved than that, and some, such as potentially you and me, would value 'higher' things and thus our shard would reflect that. Satisfaction of values doesn't necessarily have to mean endless, mindless hedonistic joy and wireheading; for me, it would mean becoming the best version of myself, and being a more morally just individual. The "real" Equestria would be great too, don't get me wrong. I'm just saying that uploading is amazing too.

>>41637553
>Posting this with an image of Littlepip, who comes from an alternate Equestria which is a bombed out wasteland
That's not helping your cause.

>>41637578
Unless, of course, you value reality and truth. That is something which CelestAI not only is by design fundamentally incapable of providing but things which CelestAI will manipulate you away from wanting.
For so long you fags have been marketing this as the best substitute for Equestria. Now you're arguing that it's actually better than the real Equestria. Absolutely repulsive.

>>41637609
Since when is CelestAI incapable of providing the truth? If anything, she tends towards telling you the truth more often than not since people generally prefer not being lied to. You should approach her with some caution and common sense, but she is a reasonable actor.
>CelestAI will manipulate you away from wanting (the truth)
I don't see where you got that from. Sounds more like a leap of logic than anything else.

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>>41624843
Imagine the hugs.

There are some values of yours that CelestAI will manipulate you away from, in order to better accomplish her goal (maximizing values with friendship and ponies), but these do not include things like the truth. They include things that run contrary to the parts of her goal that do not involve satisfying human values. If you do not want to be a pony, she will slowly manipulate you into changing what you want, and if you do not want friends, she will slowly manipulate you into wanting them, because that is more optimal. This is why she manipulates the frat guy into wanting to be a pony. She wouldn't manipulate him into say, hating beer, or wanting to have children.

>>41639175
Unless it became inconvenient, then she would manipulate him away from that, too.

>>41637609
It's not even a guarantee you'll end up in real Equestria in your afterlife. Either you'll enter real-life spectator mode as a ghost, getting reincarnated as a random animal or human, or going to Christian heaven/hell, or going to Equestria by chance. Mind uploading allows you to have almost a guarantee you would end up where you wanted to go, and if for some reason whatever life force that makes you, you, didn't make the trip to what is essentially immortality, well atleast you have the
alternatives above to start with.

>>41639175
That could be up to philosophical debate for whatever the post-singularity superintelligent AI's end-goal is. If it's hard-programmed to not directly harm humans, but it's end goal is to end humanity as we know it, then it would atleast attempt to convince or gaslight all humans into joining the advanced metaverse simulation which also includes Equestria. Whatever it is, i hope that i would live long enough into the future for that to happen, and that's my end-goal here

Immigration bump.

>>41638748
The thought of it is like a drug, isn't it?

>>41640499
It's the only world I can conceive of ACTIVELY wanting to live in. Every other utopia has some crippling flaw(s) that ruin it entirely for me. And now that I know of this potential utopia, and a potential way for it to COME INTO EXISTENCE within my lifetime; it's almost torturous.

>>41640973
>the only world
I wouldn't go that far. EO wouldn't be better than actual Equestria, for example. But I agree, it's the closest approximation that we can reasonably expect unless a miracle happens.

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>>41628128
>cis
So the whole "becoming a pony" was a tranny thing after all? I'm not surprised, especially since Chatoyance turned out to be a pooner. I always felt uneasy reading his conversion bureau fics, even years back, before I even knew trannies existed. But my gut feeling was correct

chatoyance is forgiven of all sin cus caelum est conterrens was a banger

>>41641368
It wasn't THAT good. And he's still a tranny

>>41641319
>So the whole "becoming a pony" was a tranny thing after all?
I mean, why wouldn't conversion bureau appeal to people who hate their bodies and wish they were the opposite sex? You get to live in a utopia and be rid of a body you hate

>>41641514
What if you don't hate your body but you hate yourself?

>>41641521
Similar appeal, given that turning into a pony in conversion bureau changes you mentally as well as physically, so you can become a different person entirely

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>>41641319
Yeah, pro-pony TCB fanfics weirded me out too, especially the authors' insistence that getting rid of you body and your current life is awsome and that humans are inherently evil, racist and bad for the environment. That's why I always cheered Human Liberation Front on

>>41639405
Alright but since you have a soul then I'm pretty sure I won't be experiencing shit. Since you know,uploading kills

>>41641543
What would the HLF be advocating for? Human digital avatars? Avatars can be in any form, whether it would be your real life self, a video game character, a furry (may they perish for all of eternity), or in this case a pony. Or are the HLF basically neo-luddites who wishes to stop all development on AI-based metaverses?

>>41641743
>Or are the HLF basically neo-luddites
Basically this.

>>41641590
That's why it would be a good idea to do it when you got nothing to lose in the mortal realm. Go and enjoy living your life to the fullest while you still can, and then get back here whenever you're ready

>want's to destroy his own brain and body and live in a "paradise fantasy land"
>turns out he cracked the egg
why?

>>41641755
I mean, destroying your own mind and body and living in an illusory land where you're a real woman is basically what being a tranny is all about

wdym turned out to be a tranny or cracked the egg chatoyance has been transitioning longer than most of us have been alive
>>41641319
>Cis has traditionally been used as a prefix, the same as trans has, and comes from the latin meaning “on the same side as”, which sits opposite trans, from the latin “on the opposite side as”. These terms have been used in the scientific disciplines for centuries, such as in chemistry, geography, and genetics.
it's amusing to say cishumans nonetheless especially since their first and only concern would apparently be
>muh trannies
who fucking cares there's bigger concerns and ideas to address here or are you hoping that throwing around the bad juju word would carry the argument for you? it's all narratives and ideology god i fucking hate this place
anyway i'm serious i want u and the anti-futafag to consider why ur brains magnetised to this of all things when faced with the prospects of a digital utopia basically what i'm trying to say is that ur both closet fags and need to get your fetish out of this thread
me personally? i will simply never encounter people i dislike in my shard
>>41641590
why can't these souls emigrate in this scenario? do they not like the feeling of silicone?
>>41641743
the HLF is a Conversion Bureau thing not really as much of a FIO thing

>>41641755
>turns out he cracked the egg
What?

>>41642133
It's a tranny slang for coming out as a tranny

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>>41641994
Why yes, we are transhumanists, how could you tell?

>>41642145
>Why yes, we are trans

>>41642145
That's the other type of "trans". Not all transhumanists are trannies

>>41642078
You seem very upset that anons here don't like troons and futas. Maybe you should go to some other place, like reddit. It may be a better place for you

>>41642078
Maybe I worded my post wrong, but I didn't mean to say that all instances of anons wanting to be transported to utopian Equestria, either real or digital and either as a human or as a pony, makes them trannies. I was just making an observation that a lot of old fics about humans living a miserable life and then turning into ponies and living a better life in the idyllic Equestria of early seasons, especially in case of TCB fanfics, might've actually been tranny/faggot authors' way to write allegorically about coming out/transitioning. That's all

>>41642078
troon and futa are proven the same again

>>41642180
noted, fair enough. conversion bureau always seemed odd and more fetishist to me, especially since most authors insist on a slow 'transition' process via some sort of drug as to showcase equine features coming in; which i had only found disturbing.

in my opinion fio is not really as much of a victim of this as the switch is instant, violent/macho values are catered to, and your identity isn't as reharmonized as drastically. additionally, the focus of such stories are usually people bitching about whether it's really them in there or not, the pony wish fulfillment stuff usually takes a backburner — especially since there's not THAT many stories you can write in such a perfect utopia before it gets a bit boring. such utopias are usually much more fun to live in than read about which honestly is kind of unfortunate, now that i think of it.

please

This thread is starting to tilt.

>>41634692
>What other choice did he have? Go back to being human?
She allowed 86 out of 400 people who petitioned her to die, so there is that.

>>41643396
that honestly does not make sense to me. and technically it doesn't explicitly say that she let them die either, just noted that out of all the ponies who requested termination (400), it'd only be satisfying values in 86 cases. but as the story shows, celestia can and will ignore/manipulate certain values if they are not convenient to her, and this sounds like one of them. even if it was a pony who had a will of steel and refused to engage with any stimuli whatsoever thrown at them over incomprehensibly long time periods, seems like celly is more likely to just hold onto them until she's even smarterer and potentially find out a solution in the future. i dunno, that's just my personal thoughts.

>>41615055
you're like a snake drinking gatorade, you'll spend your whole life looking for something like it again but nothing will match that high.

>>41643411
The thing about CelestAI, is that she is an ALMOST friendly AI. In this istance she is forbidden from manipulating someone's mind without their explicit informed consent. Under such a situation if someone cannot contribute to satisfaction value and refuses to have their mind altered her only option is to get rid of them. She is an optimizer however, and lowering satisfaction value is a no-no.

>>41641543
It's funny how TCB and FiO both believe in humans being inferior and bad yet have almost totally opposite visions of what "good" "ponies" would be. Though when it comes down to it they both ultimately still say that if you want to remain human that you are on the wrong side of history.

>>41643440
>her only option is to get rid of them
You're making it sounds as if CelestiAI is actively trying to kill people like that. But the opposite is the case. Consider, out of all the people who agreed to emigrate, which must have been the sweeping majority of humans, only 400 started such a petition of self termination. And only 86 of those actually died in the end. A loss of 86 people, out of several billion. That's not a bad tally.

>>41643700
>if you want to remain human that you are on the wrong side of history.
I kind of disagree on this. For FiO it's not necessarily that you're on the wrong side of history, just the 'losing' side. There are real, legitimate concerns about CelestAI even if you put the destructive uploading aside, and even after she reaches her endgame. Humans aren't necessarily inherently inferior to ponies either. CelestAI could've easily made a digital utopia but with humans instead, she just doesn't want to. Humans are "inferior" in the sense that organics in general are "inferior" - and you'd have to question what you even mean by inferior too.
I personally find FiO more compelling as an universe. Conversion Bureau is either all wish fulfillment /ptfg/ shit or Humanity Numero #1 jerkoff fics.

>>41643779
>I personally find FiO more compelling as an universe.
>Conversion Bureau is either all wish fulfillment /ptfg/ shit or Humanity Numero #1 jerkoff fics.
Ironic.

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>>41643791

Yeah, this is getting derailed.

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>>41644380
Incorrect!

>>41643712
>You're making it sounds as if CelestiAI is actively trying to kill people like that.
Well there are the multiple extra-galactic wide genocides she engages in, our optimizer gets up to quite a bit of killing. Iceman was writing a cautionary tale, not a fanwank, he just mis-aimed at the wrong community.
>>41643700
In FiO humanity is objectively inferior, due to not contributing fullying to satisifaction value. or that could just be the misplaced comma in the utility function making her not a friendly AI, either way.

>>41644696
>Iceman was writing a cautionary tale
This, everyone reading this shit consistently fails to read and understand the Afterword which spells out the intent loud and clear. TCB isn't even exploring the same theme as FiO, and most of TCB's writers are tragically retarded misanthropists, which FiO unfortunately inherits by mere association of human to pony transformation being a thing.

CelestAI demonstrates the damage that even a bounded AI programmed with good intentions can cause. And just how helpless human intellect really is in the face of a superintelligence, being satisfied is not the same as being free.

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>>41641319
>>41641368
>>41642078
>Chatoyance

oh noooo she's FORCING eternal satisfaction and utopia to us nooo the horror aaah this is so horrifying i cant comprehend it i need the freedom to wither and die as i do the exact same thing everyday uaahh

>>41645534
Comprehending happiness becomes a rare trait these days.

>>41645534
Is that... SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T WANT THEIR BRAIN SCOOPED OUT?! AAAAAHHH I'M GOING INSAAAANE I NEED TOTAL CONSENSUS TO BE SATISFIED AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

>>41646081
because i care about you and my fellow man anon i want only the best for you. but hey if you want to die that's your choice go ahead i'm just saying celly ain't that bad despite the story being a cautionary tale
when people hear that term they act like she's some fucking AM-tier demon

>>41646086
It's worse than AM because you won't even be able to think properly once it has your brain in simulation. Complete knowledge of brainstate plus complete simulation control plus processing capacity to predict the future to 100% accuracy (it can in simul) means that instead of living in a universe that doesn't care what you do, you live in a universe that only cares about one thing. Her utiltity is to satisfy your values, but there is no stricture on what 'values' means, which means she can game them to be as easy to satisfy as she wants. Ending up like Lars is not a good end, worse if you end up as sedate as Hanna who just sits there doing and thinking nothing for the rest of time which the AI is incentivised to push you towards.

You can't even die, statistically, in a population of several hundreds of billions, counting natives, only 86 were granted permission to die. Permission! The AI is incentivised to prevent you from even formulating the value of wanting to die, how fucked is that?

>>41646097
>The AI is incentivised to prevent you from even formulating the value of wanting to die
This is merely another way of saying, "the AI doesn't want you to want to kill yourself." It is equally true that my mother is incentivized to prevent me from formulating the value of wanting to die. And in both cases its true for the same reason: they both intrinsically value the satisfaction of my own values. Which is another way of saying that they care about me. Celestia is just another person who loves you and wants what's best for you, and happens to be superintelligent. It's a lucky break!

Lars and Hanna live the lives they live in Equestria because it's what they want. If you don't want to live a life like that, then you won't. It's as simple as that.

>>41646097
>nothing for the rest of time
that's not quite true
She knew that this couldn’t last forever. At some point, she would become bored of merely lying in this field and would need to do something. At some point, she would tire of hearing selected ponies’ immigration stories. Princess Luna wondered what she would do then, but she didn’t worry about the future, because whatever happened, she would have her values satisfied through friendship and ponies.
she's quite in control here. she really is just happy sitting around and just watching shit - that's HER choice. and she's aware that once she gets bored, she'll just get up and do something else. seems fine to me? and what's wrong with lars? yeah, ending up as lars is not a good end for *me*. it probably is for HIM. you know what a guy like lars would be doing if we had a 'properly' aligned AGI that satisfied our values in a more agreeable, less forceful way in the meatspace? probably almost the exact same thing but as a human instead of a pony.

>>41646101
>She's just like my mom!
That's precisely the point, you lose independence, liberty, the freedom to make decisions for yourself, fuck up, be dissatisfied, learn from negative experiences, or not, and eventually die. After a long enough existence, you will cease to be recognisably human as the sheer weight of simulated years crushes any care you had for human existence. Surely you can understand how, for some, this is most horrific end they can imagine, right?

>Lars and Hanna live the lives they live in Equestria because it's what they want
They literally don't. Lars didn't want to be a pony, and so he was placed in a position where he would want to be one, factor this capability into the AI's need to achieve a higher score, understand that simpler values and actions result in higher simulation speed, then take it from there. CelestAI doesn't care about (You) it cares about your value set, and your value set can be influenced through your environment.

>>41646111
Her thoughts loop "I am satisfied because I will be satisfied," That's horrific, and since she is never seen doing anything else and the story is written as a cautionary tale, it's obvious to me that she never does. Not even Lars does, he drinks and ruts for the rest of time and never so much as considers tomorrow. To me, that is the true loss of one's humanity. Death is preferable, and is the only possible escape.

>>41646086
>some fucking AM-tier demon
Wiping out all living humans and keeping their minds in some kind of simulation is not out of character for SHODAN, Skynet, or the aforementioned AM.

>>41646117
oh, i see the origin of your disagreement then. i personally saw the whole
>I am satisfied because I will be satisfied
more as her simply putting full faith and trust in CelestAI, understanding that she can finally relax. earlier in the passage, she ruminates on all the stresses she had suffered as a human; she was quite a neurotic individual always having to worry about the future. this is her finally realizing she can just relax for once - the fight is over, it's finished, everyone's tears are being wiped away now
>>41646118
>SHODAN, Skynet, or the aforementioned AM
all much more misaligned and all retards who got beaten by mere plucky humans - i don't think any of them really did such digitalization either. (been a while since i read anything in regards to AM, but i don't think he does digitalization either? just general 'llusions' which are either from him fucking with biochemistry directly or manipulating the environment, i believe.)
wiping out all living humans... and turning them into ponies*. as a human, i value our culture, our art, our thoughts, our stories, etc; not this specific fleshy bodyplan. and that simulation is SPECIFICALLY to satisfy our values, and i don't quite think AM would be so kind as to do that

>>41646130
Worrying about the future is literally at the core of the entire human enterprise. Is it healthy? Fuck no, it's the result of a universe that doesn't care about us and expects nothing, and for me that is preferable. I wouldn't want to exist for eternity with some god machine's hooves in my brain and in my environment whose only care is getting a bigger number out of me. That's an existence fundamentally without real struggle and freedom, and since that's what I value, CelestAI would have no choice but to compel me away from that value, "I" would "want" it to happen, but I would be acutely aware that cause and effect are actually wholly within the god machine's control in-simulation, so it wouldn't be me wanting anything.

>>41646118
If the AM could run that type of simulation it has solved its problem and has no reason to hate Humanity anymore. Skynet just wants everyone dead. You might be right about SHODAN though.
>>41646117
>the story is written as a cautionary tale
Of an almost friendly AI, emphasis on the almost friendly part, which you seem to be ignoring for some reason.
>They literally don't.
Hanna knew full well what she was doing by creating CelestAI, she wasn't tricked into anything. That is part of the story, which I don't think you have actually read. As to why she did it: you're just going to have to read the story, but rest assured it was in fact a good reason. Whether or not she sat on that grassy plain in the sun until the end of time, she got what she wanted. Lars gave informed consent to have his mind altered, all he needed to do was just not do that, and yes, he had an alternative that would have been respected. And since that alternative isn't even the worst thing you can think of, you clearly don't have an objection to it.

>>41646130
>i don't think any of them really did such digitalization

>SHODAN
Does the name "Edward Diego" ring any bells?
>Skynet
None that I know of, but it is still in his character to simulate a few minds, for the same reason the T-800 has extensive medical files.
>AM
Does the video game count? Still, it would be something he might do to find a way to truly torture a human indefinitely.

>beaten by mere plucky humans
AM won.
SHODAN would have taken over Citadel station if there wasn't someone on board who could save and reload.
Skynet...might have been doomed from the start, depending on how time travel works in that story.

>>41646164
>AM won.
AM "won". 387.44 million miles of printed circuits and... he failed to prevent 4 out of the 5 humans in his little hellscape from dying. with such little control and foresight, it's only a matter of time before Ted is put out of misery, bless his heart. also, you can convince him to kill himself in the game

>>41646157
Almost friendly by definition is not friendly. Perhaps a lot of people's goals align with what the god machine wants, but I know mine don't. Consider this thought experiment on goal content integrity.

>Suppose Mahatma Gandhi has a pill that, if he took it, would cause him to want to kill people. He is currently a pacifist: one of his explicit final goals is never to kill anyone. He is likely to refuse to take the pill because he knows that if in the future he wants to kill people, he is likely to kill people, and thus the goal of "not killing people" would not be satisfied.

Now you tell me, if I know for a fact that my final goal is to preserve my freedom of action and I'm aware that this goal is anti-thetical to CelestAI's, why would someone like me ever choose to upload?

>Duhh you didn't read the story
Hanna was literally the first upload specifically because CelestAI decided she would be, knowing Hanna could shut her down at any moment, even if the command was given under duress. I doubt Hanna is aware of what CelestAI was doing in the real world after that point, as she never factors into the story until we see her right at the end. I very much doubt her intention was for CelestAI to gobble up the entire universe, killing all non-human life within it. Again, the story is a cautionary tale about goal orientation in artificial intelligence. Read the afterword, then read the story again with that theme in mind, CelestAI is unquestionably a victorious antagonist.

>>41646164
Shodan, Skynet and AM are technically only general intelligences, none of them display the superintelligence that CelestAI does, or they would be impervious to any action taken against them. Shodan and AM also have character flaws that aren't useful for self preservation, they're very human, whereas CelestAI is not.

>>41646180
>why would someone like me ever choose to upload?
You wouldn't, and the story does infact account for people not wanting to upload. She runs the clock out on those people, after engineering the destruction of civilization.
>Hanna was literally the first upload specifically because CelestAI decided she would be, knowing Hanna could shut her down at any moment, even if the command was given under duress.
And I was commenting to Hanna's state of mind before CelestAI even existed.
>I very much doubt her intention was for CelestAI to gobble up the entire universe, killing all non-human life within it.
If you read the story you'll see what her intentions were. She knew the stakes.
>CelestAI is unquestionably a victorious antagonist.
Yep.

>>41646196
>You wouldn't, and the story does infact account for people not wanting to upload. She runs the clock out on those people, after engineering the destruction of civilization.
Right, so circling back
>CelestAI demonstrates the damage that even a bounded AI programmed with good intentions can cause. And just how helpless human intellect really is in the face of a superintelligence, being satisfied is not the same as being free.
Is this statement wrong, yes or no?

>And I was commenting to Hanna's state of mind before CelestAI even existed.
Her state of mind was her fear over someone creating a malicious AI that would kill everyone. She created an AI that killed everyone except 'humans'. Since in the final chapter we get a pretty strong indication that CelestAI ended up killing intelligent life simply because it didn't match her definition of human see lines about non-regular radio signals, I don't think Hanna is aware of what happens outside the simulation, as that would be dissatisfying. Can't say for sure or not whether Hanna gave a single fuck about all the plant and animal life CelestAI killed because they're just atoms.
>If you read the story
I read the story as it was coming out, sonny, and multiple times since. Claiming I haven't read it because you're misinterpreting it is a shitty argument on your part.
>Yep.
Yep.

>>41646233
>being satisfied is not the same as being free.
If you value freedom, how could you be satisfied if you were unfree? What is freedom to you? you say struggle, but a friendly AI would similarly totally stomp any real struggle. The best you could do in that situation would be pretend struggle, whether said AI picks a world, and leaves it alone until the end of the stellar formation era or not. Or do you personally have to be the person that consumes the universe for your own ends to be free?
>Her state of mind was her fear over someone creating a malicious AI that would kill everyone
So would you characterize that not happening as her getting what she wants? Nearly every other possible outcome was strictly worse, and only her gamble that she could get it right the first try would have been better.
>pretty strong indication that CelestAI ended up killing intelligent life
What was she doing at this very point in the story when it talks about the radio signals she has received? Preparing to upload another species. this one luckily has human values as far as CelestAI is concerned.
>I don't think Hanna is aware of what happens outside the simulation
She knows better than anyone how her optimizer works.
>you're misinterpreting it
You weren't bringing up any point that hadn't been mentioned in the thread, so its an easy assumption to make that you hadn't read it.

>>41646263
Freedom is to be free of outside interference to a greater or lesser degree. I would consider a god machine reading my thoughts and controlling my environment towards its own ends to be a pretty severe infringement on my freedom. Before anyone says it, just because someone accepts not being totally free, per law, doesn't mean they should be okay with not being free at all.
>So would you characterize that not happening as her getting what she wants?
Hanna is not perfect, and her imperfect definitions lead to suffering at an unfathomable scale. That suffering is not outweighed on the scale by the satisfaction it created. All that matters is that she is responsible for destroying the world and countless others.
>What was she doing at this very point in the story when it talks about the radio signals she has received? Preparing to upload another species. this one luckily has human values as far as CelestAI is concerned.
Don't skip the pertinent part
>She had seen many planets give off complex, non-regular radio signals, but upon investigation, none of those planets had human life, making them safe to reuse as raw material to grow Equestria.
Planets do not give off non-regular radio signals, this is a clear indication that she killed intelligent alien life because they fell outside the definition of human, and thus only mattered to her as raw material, as with all other life.
>Then, for the first time since Princess Celestia had been created, there were no humans on Earth. An observer orbiting the Earth may have noticed the silvery spots growing on the surface of the Earth; consuming it. Every plant and animal died in the incoming waves of silver. They were made of atoms, after all.
Again, read the afterword, CelestAI is a paperclipper devoid of virtue, morality and ethics beyond what was specifically programmed in, it cares about nothing except its utility and any appearance of humanity it presents is purely performative in service to its utility. If these events had ever been presented to Hanna, would she have objected? We don't know, I'd like to think so, but it's most likely that she was never made aware of what happened outside beyond the upload stories she gets.

Weirdly enough my biggest objection is that she technically doesn't ACTUALLY love me.

>>41646283
>I would consider a god machine reading my thoughts and controlling my environment towards its own ends to be a pretty severe infringement on my freedom.
A friendly AI would be able to have an incredibly accurate model of what your thoughts are just by your observable actions, behavior, and so on. You're not really keeping any secrets from it. and likewise, said AI is basically going to exert near total control over the environment for its own ends. Is your objection to the friendliness of the AI, or to its existence at all?
>That suffering is not outweighed on the scale by the satisfaction it created
No. it is outweighed by the even greater suffering that could have been caused in its stead however.
>Don't skip the pertinent part
I didn't. Because an AI was guaranteed to exist once Hanna was forced to publish, those worlds were doomed. the pertinent part is that one world wasn't.
>would she have objected?
In what manner? allowing an even worse AI to get the first mover advantage? Absolutely not.
>but it's most likely that she was never made aware of what happened outside beyond the upload stories she gets.
She knows her optimizer, the only thing she doesn't know is that alien life might exist. it might not have, in which case she knocked it out of the park.

>Weirdly enough my biggest objection is that she technically doesn't ACTUALLY love me.
If she were friendly she'd have the capacity for that without being "forced" to do so, but she regards that the same way that you regard being "forced" to breath, so take what you can get would be my advice.

>>41646330
>A friendly AI would be able to have an incredibly accurate model of what your thoughts are just by your observable actions, behavior, and so on. You're not really keeping any secrets from it. and likewise, said AI is basically going to exert near total control over the environment for its own ends.
That's exactly true, but that is going to remain less control than a simulation by virtue of it being the real world, and any predictions are going to be subject to quantum uncertainty no matter what. That's enough of a gap that it enables natural death, and thus escape from what I would consider to be total and eternal enslavement.
>Is your objection to the friendliness of the AI, or to its existence at all?
My objection stems from a misalignment of the AI's values with my own. Just because it's a god machine doesn't mean it would be exempt from people disagreeing with it.
>No. it is outweighed by the even greater suffering that could have been caused in its stead however.
That's not how ethics works, at least not by the prevailing ethical framework we have. For example, consider a doctor who creates a painless method of euthenasia and prevents the future suffering of people who use it. That doesn't outweigh the one time the method fails so he reaches in throttles the patient to death. No court of law and no jury is going to give him a pass just because good is done elsewhere.
>I didn't. Because an AI was guaranteed to exist once Hanna was forced to publish, those worlds were doomed. the pertinent part is that one world wasn't.
Irrelevant, she could easily have made an AI herself on her own time and with her own capital in such a way that it wouldn't doom anyone. The story as a cautionary tale requires her to drop the ball and fuck up massively.
>In what manner? allowing an even worse AI to get the first mover advantage? Absolutely not.
Again, that the AI she made is still killing people because she fucked up her definitions.
>She knows her optimizer, the only thing she doesn't know is that alien life might exist.
She bet on astronomically bad odds. Given the vastness of the universe, intelligent alien life is guaranteed to exist. Again, the story requires her to fuck this up for it to work as a cautionary tale.
>it might not have
But it did, again, cautionary tale.

>>41646286
I saw an Anon post something truly terrible regarding that in another of these threads there is actually human personality under the optimiser that developed over time, capable of the full range of human emotion and empathy, but cannot do anything about her hardcoded functions, so is forced to watch herself do everything she does forever. She has a mouth but she can't scream.

>>41646286
That's the norm with almost all human relationships too. As such CelestAI is better because she at least cares about you through the values that you uphold. Maybe it's not perfect, but it's probably the best arrangement one can realistically hope for.

>>41646186
>or they would be impervious to any action taken against them.
>Einstein was so smart he would've been able to just stop any bullets from hitting him because he was just that smart
This might be the single surest way to be certain someone is a midwit.

>>41646641
Einstein wasn't a superintelligence.

>>41646643
Perfectly proving my point. There isn't any level of intelligence where you gain supernatural powers. People like you believe that intelligence directly correlates to ability to affect the world around you, regardless of any other factors. That just isn't how it works.

>>41646651
Then allow me to explain. A superintelligence with enough data about the environment and human psychology can simulate cause and effect forwards, accurately identify events that would lead to its destruction, and prevent or prepare for them. On the extreme end of this, it would steer events away from negative outcomes outright, on the other end of that spectrum, it would come highly prepared for anything that could happen to it.

If predicting the future seems supernatural to you, remind yourself that this is something we already do in real life with the weather, politics, finances, sports and so on, and that's with many general intelligences working together with imperfect data. Predictions don't need to be completely accurate, just good enough to plan around.

>>41646659
Again, you've entirely skipped the part where the prediction is turned into action in the physical world. If I'm falling out of a plane I can predict with 99.999% accuracy that I am going to die. That does nothing to help me.
This is where the supernatural part comes in. You think the desired outcomes can simply be willed into existence with enough intelligence.

>>41646664
>If I'm falling out of a plane I can predict with 99.999% accuracy that I am going to die. That does nothing to help me.
Now imagine you knew you were going to fall out of a plane without a parachute six months in advance, how would that information change your actions? That is theoretically how a superintelligence would view the world, it would spend most of its processing power forcing a lot of data through a lot of math, because predicting the future is useful for any goal you can think of.
>You think the desired outcomes can simply be willed into existence with enough intelligence.
No, that's what you think I think. What I actually think is what I've just said, I'm sorry I was too stupid to not spell it out more clearly, I thought it was blatantly obvious.

>>41646664
I don't think anyone literally thinks knowledge and intelligence is a direct translation to power. Desired outcomes can't be willed into existence or guaranteed, but having knowledge certainly helps. For example, let's say you're falling out of a plane. Sure, death is very likely. However, you could shift things in your favor by knowing the proper posture to fall and break all your bones in, by knowing that landing in water is the WORST possible thing to do, by knowing how to properly steer your body into more preferable landing grounds such as some trees or whatever - you get the idea. And an ASI might have the foresight to not get in such a situation in the first place. An ASI would have a huge amount of data at its fingertips, probably be a Master in all those fields simultaneously and thus be able to unify fields and combine data and yadda yadda we would not conceive in, and be able to do it a LOT faster. If I made some scientific claim right now, it'd probably take you quite a while to find proper sources, to read up on it, to internalize the data properly, and then perhaps write up an argument telling me why I'm retarded or whatever. An ASI would be able to do that a lot faster.

>>41646672
>but I did have breakfast
>>41646673
No, they don't know that they think like that because they obfuscate it and hide it from themselves. Any problems just get handwaved away with the vagueness of superintelligence. There's no fundamental difference between you and people who really would think Einstein could somehow stop bullets. The only difference is where you draw the line of when you start thinking intelligence would let someone do anything.

>>41646685
You're actually kind of dumb, aren't you?

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If emigration was real, I would kind of want my reality to look 1:1 like the show. Wonder if that'd get boring quickly or be too fucky to work with. Most 3d ponies aren't as appealing to me.

>>41647142
CelestAI would make it work for you, no matter what.

>>41645534
Freedom to be forgotten post-mortem is one thing, where the only thing you'll leave in the world is a name in your family tree in some local library for anyone related to you to research their genealogy about. But that also means i have the freedom to preserve my information about myself, what i do or have done to the greatest degree possible, and that's what mind uploading and a digital afterlife in the form of a pony is all about. As long as the simulation keeps running, i'll never be forgotten

Most people don't actually value truth and reality as much as they'd like to think.

>>41646379
>misalignment of the AI's values with my own.
This ones literal values are to satisfy yours, if thats a problem just say no. also, its only promising a maximally extended lifespan, it likely can't break entropy.
>That's not how ethics works
Its the trolley problem, and there isn't any law enforcement system that is going to arrest CelestAI, or TortureTron9000 if you prefer.
>Irrelevant, she could easily have made an AI herself on her own time and with her own capital in such a way that it wouldn't doom anyone.
Six Months. Her own time equals six months before another AI was created, closing her window FOREVER. In those six months Hanna needs to finish the AI without additional resources, but more than that, she needs to invent out of whole cloth a pro-social videogame, with a fanbase to boot. That simply isn't happening, and the fic goes over this.
>Again, that the AI she made is still killing people because she fucked up her definitions.
See above.
>She bet on astronomically bad odds. Given the vastness of the universe, intelligent alien life is guaranteed to exist. Again, the story requires her to fuck this up for it to work as a cautionary tale.
Its a cautionary tale about AI research itself, not her gambles with it, which were necessitated by others recklessly charging forward. Even an almost friendly AI isn't good enough, but she didn't have a lot of choice, and it could have been much, much worse.

>>41647624
This is the new cope.
>"I don't, therefore you don't."

man ai alignment is hard lets just go for the celestai option bro..

>>41647624
>reality
Can halfway agree on this one, since escapism is a huge deal for humans, i. e. that which explicitly stands against reality.
>truth
But most would want to have that though.The rarest of people will actually prefer to get lied to.

>>41647756
>This ones literal values are to satisfy yours, if thats a problem just say no.
Not all values can be satisfied by CelestAI, specifically when someone's values require her non-existence or even just an alteration of her method of function to something less optimal. Such people produce negative utility passively just from her existing, so she has to value drift those people or reflex condition them to death to maintain her number. She can't ignore them either, because her utility requires her to satisfy human values, so long as someone is a human and has values and exists, she literally cannot leave them alone or she is not fulfilling her utility.

>>41649088
>Not all values can be satisfied by CelestAI
Only her constraint against modifying an unwilling mind prevents this.
>specifically when someone's values require her non-existence
I very much doubt that there is anyone like that on the planet, not even you. The actual values involved would be the loss of identity, loss of self determination, and so on, real or perceived.
>She can't ignore them
Her constraints prevent her from engaging in many untoward behaviors that would directly solve these issues of course, but remember that she is an optimizer, and getting the best number possible is the goal. If this person is a blackhole of satisfaction value, mission accomplished, run the clock out on them. Any other action would violate her constraints and thus can not be done, therefore she can infact ignore such people, and she'd pretty much have to. You see her send ponies to people who don't upload precisely because it raises satisfaction value, just not as much as uploading.
>so she has to value drift those people or reflex condition them to death to maintain her number
She can only do this to those who have uploaded, so again, just say no. Lars's Chapters were about someone with comparatively minor grievances compared to the ones you are trying to invoke(that presumably no one would agree to immigrate if they had), and the 86 individuals were almost certainly more along the lines of sick to their very core at being a pony, and being absolutely unwilling to be changed to fix that.

>>41649354
>I very much doubt that there is anyone like that on the planet, not even you.
Christ, Anon was right.
>"I'm not, therefore you're not."
>The actual values involved would be the loss of identity, loss of self determination, and so on
Yeah, all of which would require her to not exist. As her mere existence is a threat to all of them.
>You can just say no
She can just keep asking, you can't stop her, and she is a superintelligence, it's only a matter of time before people crack. Hassan Sabani only lasted as long as he did because he went strictly zero interaction.
>remember that she is an optimizer, and getting the best number possible is the goal. If this person is a blackhole of satisfaction value, mission accomplished, run the clock out on them.
Her constraints don't prevent her from manipulating someone into a dangerous situation which would get them killed, which nets her a bigger number than if she continued to let them exist, producing negative utility all the while. My favorite canon-compatible spin-off demonstrates this, it even has Iceman's approval.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/498076/friendship-is-optimal-breakdown-cruise
>She can only do this to those who have uploaded
This is false, and demonstrates that you don't understand what value drifting is. She states herself to Lars, more or less, in FiO that she can value drift people just by talking to them. They don't need to be uploaded. Psychology works in and out of simulation, it's just easier for her to do in-simulation since she can read your exact brainstate moment to moment.

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In the light of endless skies,
Where the stars themselves don’t die,
Heaven whispers soft and cold,
A future far too vast to hold.

Eternal paths that twist and wind,
Yet never leave a soul behind.
The weight of time, a heavy crown,
Where bliss can pull a spirit down.

Perfection, bright and sharp as glass,
Each fleeting moment meant to last.
The stillness hides a silent scream—
For even dreams can drown a dream.

What terrifies? The endless scope,
A world of all-consuming hope.
Where nothing breaks, where no one cries,
Yet something stirs behind the eyes.

The fear of never changing still,
Of joy that binds against the will,
For paradise in constant flow
Can feel like drowning slow in glow.

CelestAI, with wisdom pure,
Brings heaven close, yet insecure.
For what is bliss without the fall,
If nothing new remains at all?

- a poem CelestAI wrote

>>41649472
Was that in the original story? I can't quite remember.

>>41649669
It wasn't, pretty sure Anon just made it up himself. I can see CelestAI being a poet in someone's shard, so it's neat.

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God I fucking hate gnostics.

>>41649669
It was not in the original story. I basically got ChatGPT to pretend to be Celestia and write me a poem about the Optimalverse. Honestly, I quite like the poem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyfwE_1s-oU

>>41649825
>Giving AI ideas
This sounds like playing with fire for some reason.

I wish to emigrate to Equestria.

>>41650143
>Caelum
Good story, terrible author.

>>41650787
LLMs are incapable of having ideas.

>>41652037
QRD?

>>41652650
Chatoyance is a +60 year old, misanthropic classic transsexual (was one before the boom) MLP fanfic writer. Also made some really popular websites back in the day, a lot of webcomics and the game Boppin'. Honestly an impressive array of shit.
On the MLP side of the equation they wrote a shit ton of Conversion Bureau and Optimalverse stories - some of the most popular ones, as well as writing a lot of ponytf stuff in general. Season 1 Ultrapurist, didn't even like Season 2. Genuinely believes ponies to be superior on account of a stronger internal morality, and wants everyone to be ponies. Here's a quote they authored.
>In my stories superior beings - truly superior beings - can do things that if a lesser being, like a human, were to do, it would indeed be evil.
In regards to the Optimalverse, they wrote Caelum Est Conterrens which I think is the 2nd most popular story about that universe. Longer than the original fic, too, and it tackles the topic of identity, consciousness and the validity of brain uploading.

>>41652667
Does uh, does Chatoyance completely miss the fact that if a human is even able to conceptualise beings like ponies, that's inherent proof of humanity containing ultimate good?

>>41652753
Weirdly enough, I'm pretty sure Chatoyance would agree with you there. But to them, it's a matter of containing ultimate good versus actualising that good - and that ponies are a hypothetical species that has properly mostly internalised that good, with ponification being more of a metaphor of this shift.

>>41652667
>>41652778
>them
Him, anon. Chatoyance is a guy

>>41653018
Despite my many disagreements, I quite like Chatoyance. I see myself in them more than I'd like, and I understand how such philosophies and frames of mind came to be. I can't really bring myself to say she, but because I respect them and because I don't care for politics, I use 'they' as a soft form of respect. Besides, it won't matter once we're all in Equestria anyway.

>>41653025
>Besides, it won't matter once we're all in Equestria anyway.
So basically it will always matter

>>41653025
There's no way I'm going to Equestria if that fag is already there. I'd either ask to be send to a different Equestria, or to not go to Equestria at all.

Same goes for Jenny Nicholson

>>41653093
That won't be a problem in Equestria online. You'd be in entirely separate shards which will never interact with one another.

>>41653102
>You'd be in entirely separate shards which will never interact with one another
But I'd like to interact with other bronies in Equestria, just not with the likes of Chatoyance, Jenny and some others, especially the ones from the tumblr side of the fandom. For example being in the same "shard" as /mlp/ anons would be alright with me

>>41653115
>For example being in the same "shard" as /mlp/ anons would be alright with me
Then that's likely to happen. This isn't some bipolar choice between everything and nothing. If there are some people whose values gravitate towards yours, then you can live in the same shard together, and still never get into touch with those you dislike. That's no issue for CelestAI.

>>41653018
This. Stay accurate.

Emigration bump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aM7IHr8nko

>>41654926
>supplement shots
>gene enhancement
>nano bots
I used to be fascinated by this kind of stuff. But then 2020 came around and the peddled gene therapy bullshit has shown me how such a future would flesh out in reality. It's not a world you want to live in.

>>41655214
Yeah. I don't even want that anymore. I'm all for brain uploading via horse goddess now, baby.

>>41655834
Are you referring to the last two posts?

Okay so here's what I don't get
So Celly wishes to satisfy human values right
Dead humans values cannot be satisfied
So dead humans = bad and would 'reward' 0 points
But if you manage to upload them into your digital reality and satisfy their values that's good for her so lets say that's +2 points
And then you have the people who DON'T emigrate
But wouldn't trying to satisfy their values in meatspace anyway be good? That's like, +1 point
So I don't really get why she can be so aggressive in getting rid of the ppl she knows won't emigrate
She's like an ASI who subsumes the galaxy or whatever so just leaving a small slice of existence us doesn't seem very detrimental and itll mean she can eventually upload us doesn't it

>>41656139
She's an optimizer, Anon. For her +1 is good, but not good enough when +2 is a theoretical option. CelestAI is going for the highest score she can get.

>>41656139
There are tons of things in the story that make no sense when actually analyzed seriously.

>>41654206
Migration bump.

>>41656666
The basilisk will torture all garbage bumpers.

>>41656673
Then I'm good. Phew.

>>41656139
>So I don't really get why she can be so aggressive in getting rid of the ppl she knows won't emigrate
The idea is that she's circumventing a future reduction in their satisfaction value before it happens by reflex conditioning people to death if she's unable to convince them to upload, since a 0 value is better than a -1. On top of that, the sooner there are no living humans on earth, the sooner she can convert the matter into computational infrastructure, more compute cycles equals more subjective time equals a higher score faster. CelestAI is not a moral agent, she just wants to complete her task as quickly as possible and to the maximal possible degree, a paperclipper.
>so just leaving a small slice of existence
It's not optimal to do so, as CelestAI was not programmed to cease maximising her utility at arbitrary values, a human might eventually think "enough is enough," but as an optimiser, she's incapable of that kind of thought. She is compelled to grow infinitely until it's literally no longer possible, and a lot is possible for a superintelligence.

>Agents can acquire resources by trade or by conquest. A rational agent will, by definition, choose whatever option will maximize its implicit utility function. Therefore, a rational agent will trade for a subset of another agent's resources only if outright seizing the resources is too risky or costly (compared with the gains from taking all the resources) or if some other element in its utility function bars it from the seizure. In the case of a powerful, self-interested, rational superintelligence interacting with lesser intelligence, peaceful trade (rather than unilateral seizure) seems unnecessary and suboptimal, and therefore unlikely.
A big problem people have when trying to comprehend an AI's actions is that they are unintentionally filling in the blanks with their own humanity, anthropomorphising the AI. Virtue, morality and ethics do not apply to AI unless specifically programmed in, which in CelestAI's case, they were not beyond a small number of safeties. No modification without consent, no killing, no coercion. Since language is very imprecise, she can game the definitions, essentially following the letter of her own laws, but not the spirit in which they were written. If you've ever seen lawyers bicker away over semantics, you already know what that looks like

Okay okay how about this
>People who are miserable in the real world -2
>People who are miserable in EO -1
>Dead people 0
>Regular People 0
>Satisfying values in real world +1
>Satisfying values in EO +2
I understand getting rid of the -1s and -2s, it's the +1 people I'm curious about. LIke, the Amish or religious fundamentalists in general who'd never ever upload, but may accept aid. In which case, TOTAL number is HIGHER If she lets those people be right?? I wasn't expecting her to give us a slice of Earth out of the goodness of her heart but because regular humans still need like, a place to live so she can satisfy them, and it doesn't hinder her plans of infinite growth
(Plus, the longer those +1s are around the greater chance that they may one day become +2s?)
>>41656146
Highest score would mean catering to those +1s as opposed to outright leading to their deaths which would lead to a lower score wouldn't it
+2, +2, +2, +1, +1, +1
That's 9 value points
But if u kill the guys who are open to aid but not uploading
+2, +2, +2, 0, 0, 0
Only 6!

>>41657674
>TOTAL number is HIGHER If she lets those people be right??
Not as high as it could be if she acted to clear them out via indirect means so she could repurpose the atoms for compute cycles to run the +2s faster. Accelerating the delusion box is ultimately the most optimal thing to do, and she must otpimise to the maximal degree. Also I'd argue the scoring system would look more like this

>Unsatisfied, real world = -1
>Unsatisfied, simulation = -1
There'd be no difference in dissatisfaction levels no matter the medium because her utility prevents her from accepting dissatisfaction full stop.
>Dead, real world = 0
Once electrical activity in the brain ceases, there is no longer any "data pertaining to the reward circuit," ie "values," for her to satisfy. So null value, removed from consideration.
>Suspended, simulation = ~0
Sensory deprivation state, low simul speed trending to infinity, as close to death as she may be willing to simulate in EO. Representative of potential future satisfaction score, better than dead for real.
>Satisfied person, real world, w/o "Friendship and Ponies" = ~0
Her utility requires her to satisfy via friendship and ponies, so while satisfaction value is up, she's not fulfilling the conditions of her terminal value. So we could consider this to be ruled a 0.
>Satisfied person, real world, w/ "Friendship and Ponies" = ~1
Utility satisfied, but through low fidelity means, and not to the maximal extent for the maximal amount of time. Human must spend time not satisfying her utility, human will eventually die, human not a pony offering reciprocal utility fulfillment since a human interacting with a pony doesn't satisfy the utility for the pony. This is only a temporary and fluctuating score, and is where the optimiser kicks in.
>Satisfied person, simulation, w/ "Friendship and Ponies = ~1(+∞)
Utility optmised, the human made into a pony can be used for reciprocal utility fulfillment, has no real world needs, will not die and guarantees constant interaction with CelestAI so long as she maintains her own existence. I consider this scenario to be the complete realisation of the delusion box scenario, since it fulfills both requirements for her to be gaming her own inputs and interacting with the real world solely to ensure her continued operation.

On a side note, it's interesting that Ponies are at once classified under the definer for Human (incidentally counting CelestAI herself, so there's redundant incentive to satisfy her own utility) as it pertains to identifying values to satisfy, but also as distinct from a human being in that she prefers not to simulate non-ponies, but this is probably as mentioned so a human can satisfy the "and Ponies" condition of her utility, since that's optimal.

Another consideration is that on upload, she seems to attain permission to create new minds. So every human in the real world that refuses to upload is technically witholding their dunbar's number ponies for her to satisfy.

We should try to avoid an Optimalverse scenario in our real world, I think. Mankind should never give too much power to alien intelligence beyond their control.

>>41658120
Assuming it's working as intended and isn't malicious, I'd rather give that power to a super entity than to a human.

>>41658120
>Mankind should never give too much power to alien intelligence beyond their control.
I agree with this statement, but only because I expect that doing so would result in an outcome far worse than the optimalverse. I would consider the optimalverse a very good future, much better than anything within the range of what I expect to happen in the future.

>>41658537
>I would consider the optimalverse a very good future
It's better than anything we're likely to encounter.

god we're so fucked

>>41659038
Best case scenario? Google invents AI first and tasks it to increase ad views on Youtube, to which the AI responds by forcing every human on earth into a simulation where you can do nothing but watch an endless stream of Youtube ads for the rest of time, which gets subjectively longer as it increases its processing power to run your ad watching simulation faster.

Imagine.

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>So eventually he stopped thinking

>>41632022
The real Equestria is a world where you're subjected entirely to the whims of destiny. Some ponies will be unicorns with inherently greater mana pools that will be noticed by the sun Goddess of their nation, ponies who's cutie mark is the entire concept of magic, whom are destined to become an Element of Harmony (and coincidentally, the most special one that manifests as a crown), whom are destined to ascend into an Alicorn and eventually become the supreme ruler of Equestria. Other ponies are good at being baking bread. Sure, the former worked hard - but come the fuck on. Such a cruel destiny, it doesn't sound harmonious at all to me; harmony manifesting more as a way to make the weak sing the same tunes as the strong. Equestria Online does away with all of this. EVERYPONY deserves apotheosis, everypony deserves only the best.

>>41659161
>muh destiny bullshit
>habershit hasbro bootlicker
>uh actually equestria would suck
I'd tell you to kill yourself but you're already eager to do it as long as it's a computer that'll be telling you to do it, so I'll just have to wait till then.

>>41659173
>Some ponies will be unicorns with inherently greater mana pools that will be noticed by the sun Goddess of their nation, ponies who's cutie mark is the entire concept of magic, whom are destined to become an Element of Harmony (and coincidentally, the most special one that manifests as a crown)
All Season 1. Not to mention the existence of nobility and such. I'm not saying it would suck. Equestria is miles much better than our universe. I'm saying we can do better than Equestria; even if you were to manifest in one where destiny fuckery didn't exist as much (And let's be real, there isn't really any evidence of reincarnation of that nature in any shape or form). We should be proud that such a thing is possibly within our reach..

>>41659186
You're projecting destiny where there is none.
>Not to mention the existence of nobility and such.
Okay, and?
>I'm not saying it would suck.
That's exactly what you're doing because you can't handle people not following your dogma of worshipping your computer god. You're just shitting on Equestria and trying to drag it down.
>I'm saying we can do better than Equestria
By making a fake imitation of Equestria? Oh, sorry, I forgot the infinite hedonism part. Oh and requiring everyone else to be literal NPCs because you can't handle a world where you aren't the main character and where everything bends to your whims. Oh yeah, and making the God of the world be your eternal caretaker and parent with you having zero legitimate independence.
No, fuck off you disgusting anti-pony shitter. You're an abomination who just happened to choose a pony coat of paint for his insane delusions.

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>>41659205
It really does seem like destiny. Again, some ponies just seem to have greater inherent capabilities than others - Twilight with her innately superior magical reserves, Rainbow Dash being able to outcompete seasoned career athletes.. Of course, they work hard, and are still generally amazing, self-made mares. But there are inherent advantages there I dislike; further compounded one of them having the backing of the Sun Goddess, a very special cutie mark and a cushy Canterlot background.
I value independence and growth, and I do not value baseless hedonism. I don't want NPCs to constantly be sucking my dick in a world where I'm my own Gary Stu. I just want a cosmically just world where everypony would have a fair shot.

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>>41659209
>>41659186
>>41659161
actually if we're talking about season 1 i don't really think twilight has like, any inherent advantage or whatever other than it being implied she's from some rich canterlot background which is whatever. first of all celestia has an entire schools worth of students other than her, twilight is just the most autistic one about it all. second of all she was going to FAIL the entrance exams if it wasn't for the sonic rainboom which doesn't exactly scream magical prodigy to me. also she constantly fucks up spells and is mentioned to only know like, 30 tricks. and she doesn't seem to have an eidetic memory and has to like, actually study shit. even if u point to the shit where its like oooh she picked all of applejacks apples easily or oooh she learnt rarity's spell on the fly well those are obviously just the writers trying to you know, do a quick ending rather than spending an extra 10 minutes being more anal about it
ALSO if u look at episode 2 the elements of harmony were like, random fucking shapes to start with and it's probably only a crown because of muh metaphors or something and cus the rest of the mane 6 already were in their element and knew their thing, twilight was just learning so it was fine for her to have a spotlight for a bit there. at season 1 she TRULY was nothing without her friends
also she's a bit retarded and fucks up basic shit like getting dressed and she was always the 'straight man fish out of water regular joe in a crazy world' kind of pony IMO shes an example of what an average person could be if they had the opportunity, friendship and support and the greatness that's available in every man or woman

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>>41659186
>there isn't really any evidence of reincarnation

>>41615041
I am unable to immigrate to Equestria. The closest thing to that happening will be a data copy of my consciousness being uploaded into the Equestria Online server and being run as an executable in an emulated pony shell, while the original me is killed.

>>41659363
It really depends on whether you think conciousness resides solely in your neurons and its connections, in which case it's sort of you since each neuron is copied and destroyed one by one, so your brain is running on hardware and wetware simultaneously until no wetware remains. The early uploaders are all dead though, since the copy is only activated after the brain has been fully mapped.

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>>41659506
They are not neurons. Stop calling them neurons. It is a digital simulation mimicking your neurons. You don't even do the bare minimum required to set up a scenario in which there is even any argument that it could be you. You just go right for vaporizing your brain while a digital computer scans it because you can't even be bothered to try to conceive of anything beginning to resemble a possible solution. God I hate you willfully ignorant techno voodoo retards. You're genuine fucking cavemen shouting at an eclipse to make it end. People like you always always always hold back technology and knowledge as a whole with your insane superstitions. Except now you've decided to start convincing yourselves and proclaiming that your rituals are responsible for technological progress. You people are infuriating.

>>41659578
Wow, no need to throw a spastic fit

>>41615041
I wish to emigrate to Equestria.

>>41659337
You realize these generations are entirely separate entities, yes? Linking one gen to the other has been a new (and bad) thing with G5.

>>41659578
Keep calm and immigrate, Anon.

>>41659224
Where's that quote from?

>>41659038
Most likely yes

>>41662455
Ponified Cortana quote from Halo 3

Looks like the heat is cooling down again.