Wsieber as usual punched right to the core: what was the point of the documentary? Well done. Insel., I am struggling a bit to "connect the dots" and come up with the whole picture you were drawing. Here is what I conclude,
and please correct me if I am wrong: We humans project our ways of thinking on to machines, so that even if they
don't "think as we do", if we believe they do, the results in terms of our behavior will be the same. And, like some science fiction that I have read, there may come a time when we believe that machines are more powerful than we are, and that they, not having any empathy for us, will either destroy us or that we will destroy ourselves before they can "get us"?
If the above is an accurate summarization, surely you jest.
However, your point about lack of empathy, and the need to build it, is very valid. If you are a typical human being,
you have very little empathy for a resident of a far galaxy.
But if he moved in next door and you got to know him, you probably would have a lot more. That's the way most of us are.
I would add, though, that I think a holocaust could occur even if the perpetrator(s) had empathy for their victims.
The perpetrator could think, "I'm really sorry that you have to be sacrificed, but it's for the greater good."
