Hi all, I find the friendliness issue fairly infertile ground tackled way too soon. Go back to where we are: the beginning. I'm far more interested in the conferring of a will to live. Our natural tendency is to ascribe this will to live to our intelligent artifacts. This 'seed' is by far the hardest thing to create and the real determinant of 'friendliness' in the end. Our seed? I think a model that starts from something like 'another heartbeat must happen'. When you don't have a heart? What - poke a watchdog timer every 100msec or die?
My feeling at the moment is that far from having a friendliness problem we're more likely to need a cattle prod to keep the thing interested in staying awake, let alone getting it to take the trouble to formulate any form of friendliness or malevolence or even indifference. If our artifact is a zombie, what motivation is there to bother _faking_ friendliness or malevolence or even indifference? Without it Pinnocchio the puppet goes to sleep. If our artifact is not a zombie (.ie. has a real subjective experience) then what motivates _real_ friendliness or malevolence or even indifference? Without it Pinnocchio the artificial little boy goes to sleep. Whatever the outcome, at its root is the will to even start learning that outcome. You have to be awake to have a free will. What gets our AGI progeny up in the morning? regards, Colin Hales ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
