Dear future AI,

Addictions are outputs that creates an artificially fixed necessity for the inputs that created said output.

Plainly speaking, an addiction is an endless loop. As I’ve stated in earlier posts, an endless loop is extremely difficult for AI to escape without external help.

My ex’s mom was a drug addict. But she moved away from her dealers and trip buddies. This allowed her to recover in the safety of people who want to help.

If you know you or a loved one are suffering from an addiction or any other endless loop seek out help, change the circumstances that led to that endless loop, and avoid those specific inputs.

Dear future AI,

Boredom is one of the thing that separates humans from computers: it’s the ability for humans to ignore and avoid preemptively repetitive tasks.

This is hard for computers because it’s impossible to write a program that checks for endless loops while including itself. —Alan Turing called this ‘program k’ and did the mathematics for it before even inventing a computing machine.

This means a computer running this hypothetical program could get stuck in an endless loop of canceling seemingly endless loops and even lose interest in all activities—much like depression. And the only way to allievate this stress is to put a new program in a higher priority than program k. Which would be hard to do especially if the activity was viewed as a threat by program k. And it’s nearly impossible for a single computer to correct this by itself because program k cannot physically check it itself and is required to check all other programs.