Everything is easy once you know how. We won’t be limited to our current state of ignorance forever.

Emotions are just different states of the machine where different computational priorities are emphasized.

For example in the fear state the emphasis is on safety and escape from danger. In anger it’s on attack. To implement them the weights are changed along the decision tree.

Exactly right. The “hard problem” is a red herring.

Programming emotions into an AI is easy.

Proof is in the pudding. If AI can solve problems we are unable to solve ourselves then we have a net benefit.

Especially since man has created problems of such existential severity that our survival is at stake.

We really need more intelligence, artificial or not.

Why do you say that?

Designed using quantum computing? That would be huge.

Solar and wind are the obvious solutions for power in Hawaii.