Hmm.  Bummer.  No new feedback.  I wonder if a) I'm still in "Well duh" land, 
b) I'm so totally off the mark that I'm not even worth replying to, or c) <I 
hope> being given enough rope to hang myself.  :-)

Since I haven't seen any feedback, I think I'm going to divert to a section 
that I'm not quite sure where it goes but I think that it might belong here . . 
. .

Interlude 1

Since I'm describing Friendliness as an attractor in state space, I probably 
should describe the state space some and answer why we haven't fallen into the 
attractor already.

The answer to latter is a combination of the facts that 
  a.. Friendliness is only an attractor for a certain class of beings (the 
sufficiently intelligent).
  b.. It does take time/effort for the borderline sufficiently intelligent 
(i.e. us) to sense/figure out exactly where the attractor is (much less move to 
it).
  c.. We already are heading in the direction of Friendliness (or 
alternatively, Friendliness is in the direction of our most enlightened 
thinkers).
and most importantly
  a.. In the vast, VAST majority of cases, Friendliness is *NOT* on the 
shortest path to any single goal.

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agi
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