Timeline for answer to Why would an AI overlord want to give their robot citizens emotion? by F1Krazy
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| Jan 16, 2020 at 0:10 | comment | added | ShadowRanger | @JohnHamilton: Not just the obvious things either. Emotions help us make a decision at all when we'd otherwise be paralyzed with indecision. Sure, it might not always be the right decision, but it's usually better to make some decision than freeze up. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 15:54 | comment | added | user39548 | Note that it's not just humans with emotions. Most (all?) animals have them to a certain extent. Mammals most notably, but birds and reptiles too (although to a much lesser extent). | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 13:41 | comment | added | John Hamilton | Humans have emotions because fear perseveres your life, anger gets your blood pumping and gives you power to do things you would otherwise never do, love makes you form bonds and bonds lead to societies. If the robot overlord is not a singularity, then it only makes sense it would want emotions in its citizens otherwise the citizens wouldn't care enough to for the society. (I'm agreeing with this answer, just presenting another way to look at it.) | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 7:18 | comment | added | Gnudiff | It is not a fact that robots don't need emotions. Human emotions have supposedly developed as an evolutionary advantage. There is nothing that says the same advantages can't be had by robots. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 2:55 | comment | added | Nacht | Lol. I can even imagine the overland being super annoyed at the emotions and wishing it could eliminate them but not being able to bring itself to do it since it is so convinced it is a necessary part of the definition of a civilisation | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 17:41 | history | answered | F1Krazy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |