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717 points surprisetalk | 1 comments | 15 May 25 02:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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DeusExMachina ◴[15 May 25 08:02 UTC] No.43992849[source]▶
> Perhaps you, a human, read this and think: Well, this world sounds kind of boring. Some of the machines think so, too.

> Most of the machines got bored of the project. But, all of a sudden, things began to get interesting.

> The result was like nothing the machines had ever seen. It was wonderful

> Machine society began obsessing over this development.

> The machines were impressed. And a bit scared.

Boredom, interest, wonder, obsession, being impressed and scared are all emotions that the machines in the story should not be able to experience.

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1. ithkuil ◴[15 May 25 08:17 UTC] No.43992932[source]▶
indeed, but ultimately this story is written by a human who while trying to imagine a world with "Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is no art. There is only logic" cannot quite do so.

It's very hard to do so. It's so deeply wired in us. It's part of the mechanism of our brain. We appeared to be equipped with whatever it takes to feel existential dread and we feel whenever our thought wander to the possibility of humanity no longer being there. I hear people feel that when thinking about the heat death of the universe too.