Re: [agi] Pure reason is a disease.
YKY> On 6/19/07, Eric Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The modern feature is that whole peoples have chosen to reproduce >> at half replacement level. In case you haven't thought about the >> implications of that, that means their genes, for example, are >> vanishing from the pool by a factor of 2 every 20 years or so. >> Won't take long before they are gone. I don't doubt there is a >> good element of K-strategy in human makeup, but evidently the >> K-strategy programming is a bit out of whack. >> >> I expect this was caused by our mental programming advancing much >> faster, at the cultural, meme, etc level, in the presence of >> language and printing presses etc, than evolution of the genome >> could keep up with. My guess is evolution will catch up and >> correct this in a generation or two, but in the meantime it is >> going to have substantial demographic effects. YKY> "Evolution of the genome will catch up" is a very curious notion. YKY> Can you elaborate on this? The people who are motivated to have more babies will have more babies than the people not so motivated. The genes causing them to want to have more babies will increase in frequency in the gene pool. - 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=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
[agi] Benevolence - a Material Philosophy of Goodness
Dear list, Attached please find a paper I wrote for submission to the upcoming AGI conference in Memphis, TN next year. On 7 pages it summarizes my thoughts on benevolence that I have worked on putting in book form over the past year and a bit and concludes with proposing a super goal for an upcoming self improving AGI. I would appreciate getting your feedback on my thoughts and any suggestions for improving the paper and thus increasing its chances of getting accepted for the conference. The 50'000 word novel the paper's core concepts are based on, is currently in the process of being edited and I plan to publish it before the end of July. Location for free download will be communicated here on the list. Many thanks, Stefan -- Stefan Pernar App. 1-6-I, Piao Home No. 19 Jiang Tai Xi Lu 100016 Beijing China Mobil: +86 1391 009 1931 Skype: Stefan.Pernar - 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=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e Benevolence-PERNAR.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: [agi] Pure reason is a disease.
On 6/19/07, Eric Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The modern feature is that whole peoples have chosen to reproduce at half replacement level. In case you haven't thought about the implications of that, that means their genes, for example, are vanishing from the pool by a factor of 2 every 20 years or so. Won't take long before they are gone. I don't doubt there is a good element of K-strategy in human makeup, but evidently the K-strategy programming is a bit out of whack. I expect this was caused by our mental programming advancing much faster, at the cultural, meme, etc level, in the presence of language and printing presses etc, than evolution of the genome could keep up with. My guess is evolution will catch up and correct this in a generation or two, but in the meantime it is going to have substantial demographic effects. "Evolution of the genome will catch up" is a very curious notion. Can you elaborate on this? YKY - 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=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
