Undead Astronauts

an article today has me wondering if the west should cede development of artificial consciousness (AC) to the east. i pose this question due solely to cultural considerations while overlooking any capability questions. i also say consciousness rather than intelligence b/c there’s already plenty of AI around that doesn’t necessarily impact the area i’m concerned with.

the article mentions that robot development differs in the east and west b/c the programmers in the respective cultures tend to prize different aspects of social interaction. westerners in general tend to prize individuality while easterners prize interdependence.

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this is something that i decided to look up after a discussion w/ AL47. we wondered how nationalism differed from the east to the west and i realized i had seen the information somewhere before. it was probably on gnxp but i wanted to look the information up myself.

so here i’ve put the results of the world values survey up for selected nations from the east and west. i would’ve put all of them on one table, but our blog formatting cuts it off unfortunately. (more…)