On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 7:07 AM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote:
β> β > That is one type of worry. The other (e.g.: the "paper clip" scenario) βThe paper clip scenario could only happen in a intelligence that had a top goal that was fixed and inflexible. Humans have no such goal, not even the goal of self preservation, and there is a reason Evolution never came up with a mind built that way, Turing proved in 1935 that a mind like that couldn't work. You could have a machine with very little intelligence obsessed with making paper clips, rather like a virus is obsessed with making copies of itself, but in the long run Mr. Jupiter Brain will be able to outwit the dumb machine just as we are making progress in outwitting viruses. John K Clark β -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
