I agree on your main premises—about importance of qualia, especially from the point of x-risks. For example, if humans will be uploaded, but without qualia, they will become p-zombies.
If qualia of extreme pleasure could be created and transferred, super-addictive drug epidemic will happen.
I have been thinking about qualia a lot and have some theories, but now I am concentrated on another topic.
Yes, it would be quite civilizationally embarrassing to accidently p-zombie ourselves… more generally, it seems valuable to understand tradeoffs in consciousness. This seems to be an important component in any far-future planning.
Also- Andres has done some interesting exploratory work re: defining the problem of future drug epidemics, and discussing game-theoretic considerations.
I agree on your main premises—about importance of qualia, especially from the point of x-risks. For example, if humans will be uploaded, but without qualia, they will become p-zombies.
If qualia of extreme pleasure could be created and transferred, super-addictive drug epidemic will happen.
I have been thinking about qualia a lot and have some theories, but now I am concentrated on another topic.
Yes, it would be quite civilizationally embarrassing to accidently p-zombie ourselves… more generally, it seems valuable to understand tradeoffs in consciousness. This seems to be an important component in any far-future planning.
Also- Andres has done some interesting exploratory work re: defining the problem of future drug epidemics, and discussing game-theoretic considerations.
If we make an AGI which doesn’t have qualia, it will probably will prove that no such thing exist and proceed with p-zombie us.
So in may be better to pursued the way to AGI which probably will provide it with qualia, and one such way is human upgrade