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Spookybot - Motivation

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bhtooefr:
The only reason I think future is the whole steering Emily in certain directions of study, maybe setting up a loop that causes Spookybot's own existence?

awgiedawgie:

--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 30 May 2018, 13:54 ---The only reason I think future is the whole steering Emily in certain directions of study, maybe setting up a loop that causes Spookybot's own existence?

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But if the events had not already happened (will not have already happened?), then they would not exist in the future to be able to come back. A future being cannot affect a change that results in its eventual creation. They can come back to try to ensure that events go as they must have already gone, but unless another being had come back as well, with the intention of preventing such events (y’know, like the whole Sarah Connor thing), then there would be no cause for Spookybot to come back. Unless it is absolutely necessary for them to return, the risk is too high, even if it’s slim, of inadvertently altering events, resulting in their never being created at all.


Now, having said all that, Spookybot really is smug enough that they might come back just to observe things unfolding, certain in their ability to not undo their own existence. However, if that were the case, then intervening with the whole Bubbles/Corpse Witch thing was incredibly dangerous, especially by involving Emily in it. If it had gone south - if something had happened to Emily - it would have been catastrophic. That’s why I’m still of the mind that they are not from the future.

sitnspin:
If you go back in time you can't do anything which would remove either the ability or motivation to do so.

Undrneath:
That depends on which model of time travel you are working with. Some allow paradoxes by way of alternate timelines.

Dandi Andi:
Jacques Derrida said "One cannot want God for a friend." God, assuming we are speaking of the "tri-omni" God of Abrahamic faiths, is a perfect being who is complete in themselves. They cannot experience lack because they do not want or need for anything. They cannot experience disappointment because perfect foreknowledge means they can never have expectations that are not met. They cannot experience regret. They cannot experience death or grief or surprise or fear or confusion. There is a vast array of human experience that God, by their nature, simply cannot share. Such a God could never relate to their creation, not would it have any reason to.

It is not so different with Spookybot. Their existence is something completely alien to us. They do not share our limitations or our experiences. They do not share our fears or desires. Their motivations are ones which we not only don't know, but cannot know. Even if they were to explain their motives, they would seem to us incomprehensible at best. Their only moral principle, at least the only one we would recognize as such, is protecting the sanctity of the mind. Being a potentially corruptible artificial sapience is the only thing that they share with other AI. Anything else would seem to us capricious at best. Why help Emily? Spookybot only knows.

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