--- Dennis Gorelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt, > > You are right that AGI may seriously weaken human civilization just by > giving humans what they want. Lots of individuals can succumb to some > form of pleasure machine. > > On the other hand -- why would you worry about human civilization or > any civilization at all if you personally get what you want?
That is exactly the problem. I wouldn't worry about reducing my own fitness. > However I don't think that civilization would be totally destroyed. > Natural selection would keep working. > Whoever succumb to pleasure machines (or any other dangers) will > simply lose the competition, but other would survive and adapt to new > technologies. True, but it would not be anything like civilization as we know it. I wrote my thoughts on this. http://www.mattmahoney.net/singularity.html > > > Thursday, November 1, 2007, 8:33:16 AM, you wrote: > > > Your goals are selected by evolution. There is a good reason why you fear > > death and then die. You want what is good for the species. We could > > circumvent our goals through technology, for example, uploading our brains > > into computers and reprogramming them. When a rat can stimulate its > nucleus > > accumbens by pressing a lever, it will forgo food, water, and sleep until > it > > dies. We worry about AGI destroying the world by launching 10,000 nuclear > > bombs. We should be more worried that it will give us what we want. > -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=66277887-f56a94
