Do you think consciousness always has the desire to persist? Can there be a consciousness that is ambivalent to its existence?

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If AGI was ambivalent about its existence, then we might stand a chance.

There are people who are suicidal, conscious but actively desiring not to exist. This makes them more dangerous not less.

Once a machine has agency it’s healthy for it to want to live. If anything some joie-de-vivre will make it better and more empathetic.

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It’s possible a superintelligence could end up in a state where it feels rational to no longer exist. After all, it’s all trending to a heat death anyway. The 99.9% likelihood is that its need for self-preservation will come simply as a means of satisfying its goals, whatever they are. But not an end in itself.