Ben, One issue you didn't respond to that I suggested was:
> I also think that AGIs need to have a built in commitment to devote an > adequate amount of mind space to monitoring the external environment > and internal thought processes to identify issues where ethical > considerations should apply. I think this resource allocation needs to > be reinforced by some hard wiring. What's you feeling on this? If I understand the Novamente system structure, wouldn't ethical competence warrant the inclusion of an ethics processing 'unit' in a Novamente AGI? The elements that I think are needed are some goals (established in GoalNodes??) that conform to a dual structure (hierarchical/heterarchical), a firm and adequate commitment of resources to ethical perception and implications action processing and some tie in the 'emotional' motivation systems via FeelingNodes (?), and some form of protection against frivolous reprogramming (ie. maybe some aspects are quarantines from reprogramming and other aspects can only rewired after a lot of very serious thought.), and some form of structuring into the Mind Operating System I think it might help the process of devising the ethical 'machinery' of an AGI if we just agreed that it should have some (ethical 'machinery' ) and then tried to figure out what the structure should be without getting bogged down in the specific ethical goals that should drive the system. Once we have a better feel for the ethics generation/processing architecture we could go back to the issue of what the ethical goals should be specifically. Cheers, Philip ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
