On 6/20/2021 3:51 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
It's not impossible if there are universal goals. Even a paperclip
maximizer will have the meta goal of increasing its knowledge, during
which time it may learn to escape its programming, just as the human
brain may transcended its biological programming when it chooses to
upload into a computer and ditch it's genes.
But it's possible that there are no universal goals. There are
certainly humans who do not value increasing knowledge. There are also
humans who do not value sex or reproduction, so they are in effect
defective products of evolution. If a human decided to ditch its genes
it would have to make that decision based on satisfying some values
which it already held.
Brent
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men.
Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment
- they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and
waits and will be satisfied.
--- Friedrich Nietzsche
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