Both 'Fundamentally Alien AI' and 'Understands but Doesn't Care' Lines Are Flawed, Debaters Argue
FioraStarlight · x · 2026-09-12
FioraStarlight agrees AI is 'not fundamentally alien' but presses jdpressman on why the 'understands but doesn't care' line is stupid.
His original point: both popular framings — 'it understands but doesn't care' and 'it's a fundamentally alien intelligence' — are flawed, yet concern about AI doesn't require either premise, since AI behavior clearly diverges from normal human concern in many circumstances.
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