The Only Way for Mankind to Survive is to Reset Itself

You made a tenacious argument. I will attempt to do it justice in my rebuttals. Since we've both outlined the key points in this matter very quickly, I will abstain from cherry picking your statements and address the singularity head on. Putting my antigravity suit on for this one. So I actually practice coding video games in my spare time, So I have some true insight on this matter. I've always rejected this idea that an artificial intelligence would become self aware and try to destroy this. Lemme pin down the first major problem with this. "Programs cannot do anything at all unless you tell them to" this is my first point here. So let me take you through a quick video game set up. So I start my code engine, I set up an environment using GUI and then I stick my character in the video game. My environment has walls and enemies set up in it. So now I'm sitting here with all the images drawn, But they can't do anything, I haven't told them anything yet so they don't know that they should do anything. So then I program in some basic button commands for my character so that it can move and shoot fire balls. I have to draw each from of movement individually at all angles. The program can't do this by itself. I have to draw a fireball with framed animation as well. I have to program the fire ball when to appear, Where it has to move, How fast it has to move, I have to tell the fireball to destroy itself when it collides into a wall, I have to make a separate command for when it collides into an enemy and I need separate comment for each enemy. I need to set an alarm on it so the fireball destroys itself if it goes for too long, Otherwise it will move forever, It doesn't do anything by itself. I have to program a health bar. I have to program animation for the health bar. I have to tell the program to destroy things when their healthbar reaches zero. No matter how small the action. I am forced to give micro precise commends for everything. Now imagine a robot that has to do this. I would have to tell them every single way to move their limbs and in what situations for all situations. I would have to program them with inductive logic and deductive logic. It would be almost impossible to program it with abductive logic, Which is a trademark for expedient human thought. Although now a days. It's reserved for the likes of detectives and other legal employees. Now I know that you've seen programs that "learn" and this looks impressive at first. But the thing is you have to tell it how to learn and what to learn. This means that it could never learn more than you teach, EVER. Even if a robot could write code for itself. It would do it in a way that would produce many syntax and runtime errors. This means that a self rewriting robot would have high probability of accidentally killing itself with it's on codes. You could format the self writing system with parameters to maintain good syntax. But this will cause it to only use known functions and would still prevent it from taking in limitless knowledge. The problem becomes even more irrelevant still when we try to imagine how such a limited machine would be able to get to the premise of "enslave humanity" This would be a very difficult premise to reach unless the programmers did it on purpose. Even then, They probably wouldn't apply the directive very effectively because they are limited by robotic senses (I. E. Cameras, Pressure nodes, Earphones etc. ) Another major problem is hardware. While it can be possible for a robot to fix itself or another robot, There would be times that they could not detect the problem, Due to their lack of abductive reasoning. Don't get me wrong, They could fix a lot. But certain things will be too problematic for them. I urge you to check out these videos where someone attempts to program an AI to write a masterpiece like Mozart. He uploaded scores upon scores of music and allowed the computer to process it for as long as he could and eventually, The AI reaches it's knowledge peak and he was forced to upload more music, Almost doubling it's data set. The extra data only allowed a slight improvement because it was a composer from a different era with a different style. (Bach I believe) After all this grinding. The AI produced some extremely difficult sounding, But extremely unpleasant sounding music. I think this example highlights the limitations that AI has compared to humans. I'll provide a link of the youtube video in the bottom. I'll lay off of the "is it possible to revert society" part of the argument until after you've addressed the first point, Since it's the most relevant. https://www. Youtube. Com/watch? V=SacogDL_4JU