#The Happy Machine

[l-in-c-future]

Book Reading: Eastern Perspectives of Humanistic AI 2a: Philosophical perspctives of the contest between AI and natural intelligence

The "Happy" Experience Machine and its derived philosophies

The basic questions from these schools of philosophy are around:

Can machine programmed VIRTUAL experiences set in the metaverses fully satisfied ALL happiness pursuance of human beings?

If so, can the VIRTUAL programmed machines' experiences fully replaced REAL LIFE experiences?

Does the pursuance of happiness become the SOLE pursuance of human needs?

Imagine you are the lead characters in the Matrix movie or Total Recall movie being presented with the following scenario described by psychologist and philosopher Joshua Greene, what will be your choice?

"You wake up in a plain white room. You are seated in a reclining chair with a steel contraption on your head. A woman in a white coat is standing over you. 'The year is 2659,' she explains, 'The life with which you are familiar is an experience machine program selected by you some forty years ago. We at IEM interrupt our client's programs at ten-year intervals to ensure client satisfaction. Our records indicate that at your three previous interruptions you deemed your program satisfactory and chose to continue.

As before, if you choose to continue with your program you will return to your life as you know it with no recollection of this interruption. Your friends, loved ones, and projects will all be there.

Of course, you may choose to terminate your program at this point if you are unsatisfied for any reason.

Do you intend to continue with your program?" (Source: Wikipedia)

In the second scenario, there is a machine through which you can plug into your brain that can provide whatever desirable or pleasurable experiences you want by stimulating your brain to induce pleasurable experiences that you cannot have in real life but give you pleasures that are indistinguishable from real life experiences.

Will you prefer the machine stimulations or real life experience?

Behind the hypotheis of the debate of a fundamental philosophical question:

What IS happiness?

Then WHETHER there is something justifiable as "ethical" (and moral) hedomnism by an IMAGINED CHOICE between happiness in everyday real life and an apparently preferable simulated reality?

The classical utilitarians "pleasure is the good", which leads to the argument that any component of life that is not pleasurable does nothing directly to increase one's wellbeing. Accordingly, ANYTHING that serves the means to increase one's happiness FEELINGS and PERCEPTIONS are 'good enough' to be justified. A theory that is behind EVERY invention of the technologies metaverse, virtual reality and augemented reality and many robotic technologies. (e.g. the famous robot lovers (HER) depicted in movies, science fictions and in Japan's case, machine stimulations to simulate the pleasures of sexual activities, etc.)

Robert Nozick reasoned WHY human beings may choose to reject the happy machine experiences basing on the arguments and conclusions that:

IF experiencing as much pleasure as we can is ALL THAT MATTERS to us, THEN we have no reason not to plug into the experience machine. ]

Experiencing as much pleasure as we can is NOT ALL THAT MATTER to us.

Nozick provides three reasons not to plug into the machine.

We want to do certain things, and not just have the experience of doing them. In the case of certain experiences, it is only because first we want to do the actions that we want the experiences of doing them or thinking we’ve done them.

We want to BE a certain sort of person.

Plugging into an experience machine limits us to a man-made reality (it limits us to what we can make). There is no actual contact with any deeper reality, though the experience of it can be simulated.

Through the hypothetical happy experiences machine, Nozick refuted the Hedonists' view that the things that will make a person happiest both long term and short term is the highest and greatest value everyone holds. Therefore, people may still refuse to be plugged in.

In order to provide some sort of empirical evidence where Nozick didn't verify, philospher Felipe de Brigard asked 72 US university undergraduates whether they would like to disconnect from the machine given that they were already in it.

About their "real" life, they were told one of three stories:

(a) nothing;

(b) that they were prisoners in a maximum security prison; or

(c) that they were multimillionaire artists living in Monaco.

Of those who were told nothing of their "real" lives, 54% wished to disconnect from the machine.

Of those who were told they were prisoners, only 13% wished to disconnect.

This implies that one's real-life quality impacts whether it is preferred to the machine.

Of those told they were rich inhabitants of Monaco, half chose to disconnect, comparable to the proportion given no information about their "real" life.

De Brigard attributes his findings to status quo bias. He argues that someone's decision not to step into the machine has more to do with wanting the status quo than with preference of the current life over the simulated one. (Source Wikipedia).

Why are these different views important in the context of the wrestling between AI and natural HUMAN intelligence?

Going back to Maslow's pyramid of human needs: from the most basic physiological, safety, social, rising up to the higher needs of self-esteem and self-actualisation. What makes an individual climb up the pyramid? Humane centred thoughts schools conclude that humans are INTELLIGENT AND SPIRITUAL beings, these NATURAL characters and instincts drive us to pursue higher level of needs. The natural cognitive intelligence of human beings are products of human minds, hearts, souls and spirits.

Since human beings have higher needs, the questions become HOW such needs are best served FOR the benefits of HUMANS?

Then it comes to whether, how and what human invented technologies, including AI, can BEST created and applied to SERVE HUMAN NEEDS AT THE TOP OF THE NEEDS PYRAMID.

The arguments and justifications for humanistic AIs are based on the fundamental thoughts that technologies are there to serve and assist humans to better met the higher levels of needs WITHOUT displacement of human values, identity and dignity.

Utaritarians hold a different view that as long as whatever and 'whoever' provides the best functional and utilitarian values, anything is justified as means to the end. Therefore, whether that 'whover' is a human being to achieve the ultimate ends DOES NOT matter. If a machine or any technology can do the jobs, utlimate full displacement of humans in the process doesn't matter.

Such thinking DOES NOT discern quantitative and qualitative differences between humans and machines.

[mintaii]

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[miserable-something]

lol jayvik family save me..... save me lol jayvik family......

[forgetfulmachineart]

[ID: A mostly cool colored, digital three page comic of teen Gojo Satoru talking to young Tsumiki Fushiguro. Page one: Gojo makes a sandwich for Tsumiki who's leaning on the kitchen island. Tsumiki says "Thanks for the snacks, dad" and Gojo responds "No problem, Tsumi." In the next panel Gojo complains "Man... I wish Megumi didn't hate me so much. At least you call me dad..." Tsumiki comments "Megumi does that too, though?" In the third panel, Gojo activates his Six Eyes like a flashlight and yells "When!? Where!? Do you have it on camera!?" to a surprised Tsumiki. Page two: Tsumiki thinks about the various times Megumi has called Gojo 'dad,' including when Gojo gave them a bad hair cut, when the divine dogs bit Gojo, when Gojo made soup, and lastly when Megumi asked Tsumiki to ask Gojo to make snacks which is all represented in blue tinted drawings. In the last panel she has a devious smile and is labeled "8 yr old who just realized how funny she can be" Page three: Tsumiki cheerfully says to a gleeful Gojo "In your dreams!" The second panel shows them zoomed out with a lighting strike going through Gojo's shattered heart while Tsumiki has a cat like smile. In the third panel with a light orange background, Tsumiki is smiling while Megumi comes up behind her and asks "Why's dad crying?" /End ID]

Before this happened

Edit: It has kindly been brought to my attention that Tsumi means sin in Japanese I'm so sorry Tsumiki I should've taken five seconds to check I just wanted matching nicknames with Gumi 😭

[keydekyie]

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[sharpace]

136. No Shave Challenge

I had to do one post season 2.

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[opikiquu]

my life a movie (PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR)

[venomous-qwille]

~Sideshow~ gitm au

[haveyoumetmythief]

Don’t interrupt, she’s doing important teacher’s assistant work

[eyenaku]

FOOL MASK (GITM BY @venomous-qwille)

Handbuilt porcelain with slip, overglaze, glaze, and gold lustre accents. Paint and lacquer detailing added post fire. Handsewn fool's cap and bells added post fire.

This mask is a part of a (loosely connected) mask series, all hand-built and fired using a range of different temperatures and techniques.

My favourite mask to date, Fool from Ghost in the Machine by the wonderful @venomous-qwille !! GITM is absolutely incredible and I cannot put into words eloquently how much I adore it and Fool so instead I made this mask! Hi!

My word was this mask a struggle to make. The mask itself is entirely one piece, and entirely porcelain!! That's right, those long thin rays are solid porcelain!! The eyes and tips of the blades are done in 22 carat gold lustre. All colouring save for the black and the satin sections of darker red on the face were done with only slips and underglazes. The red colour was correct without the paint, but I thought a contrast from the rest of the gloss would look nice :)

Made to scale, the mask measures 50.8x60.96cm without the hat, and 50.8x116.84cm with it! (20x24in without hat, 20x46in including hat). He is Large, but turned out absolutely lovely and I send my many many thanks to the kiln gods for producing him unscathed.

(naku & wall for scale)

(he's so big guys i have large walls (the top of my head is only slightly above the top of the bookcase beneath him) look at him at the wall it's nuts)

[velvetwyrms]

alien fuckers pspspspspsps. Just a some quick sketches bc giant MH!Victor and his tiny rugged bf won't leave my brain. Click for more detail!

[Please reblog to stop my hours of hard work from dying in your likes. This lets others enjoy it and motivates me to draw more of this AU! <3]

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

“Adrien puts Ladybug on a pedestal of perfection” this

“Adrien incorrectly calls Marinette perfect” that

Have you ever stopped to think about how Adrien has been called perfect his entire life, by the same person who liked to point out every single flaw about him?

Have you ever thought about how Adrien very likely has a skewed sense of perfection because despite being called perfect by virtually every person he has ever met, he knows that he is far from true perfection?

Have you ever thought about how, Adrien heard “you’re perfect” more than “I love you” his whole life and now probably equates the two sentences so much that the original has lost most of its meaning, but at the same time has kept it just enough that he feels as though if he isn’t perfect, he isn’t deserving of love?

Have you ever thought about how, while Adrien might keep that standard for himself, he certainly would never do so for others. So every declaration of perfection is really his own private, secret way of expressing his love to those he cherishes most? A Morse code of his soul, to share his deepest most feelings?

[home-of-the-squirmle]

Someone please please please please write a fic with Machine Herald Viktor and Hex Jayce (ie, post s2 timeline hopping jayvik) where Viktor uses his hexclaw to tickle Jayce,,,

OR uses his hexclaw to pin Jayce's arms so he can tickle him with his hands

I'll draw it.

[sillyfairygarden]

hopping on the cleo & the machine album art trend @myrathefarmer started with dance fever 🕺

[lazylittledragon]

one of my last fake skin practices before they set me loose on my own flesh >:))

i also did some beautiful stippling on the web but i forgot to take a photo so you just have to trust that i did it