Re: [singularity] Wrong question?

2007-11-30 Thread Stefan Pernar
On Dec 1, 2007 12:11 AM, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can we design AI so that it won't wipe out all DNA based life, > possibly > this century? > > That is the wrong question. I was reading > http://sl4.org/wiki/SoYouWantToBeASeedAIProgrammer and realized that (1) I > am > not sm

Re: [singularity] Wrong question?

2007-11-30 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Friday 30 November 2007, Matt Mahoney wrote: > How can we design AI so that it won't wipe out all DNA based life, > possibly this century? > > That is the wrong question. How can we preserve DNA-based life? Perhaps by throwing it out into the distant reaches of interstellar space? The first tr

Re: [singularity] Wrong question?

2007-11-30 Thread Thomas McCabe
On Nov 30, 2007 11:11 AM, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can we design AI so that it won't wipe out all DNA based life, possibly > this century? > > That is the wrong question. I was reading > http://sl4.org/wiki/SoYouWantToBeASeedAIProgrammer and realized that (1) I am > not smart

Re: [singularity] Wrong question?

2007-11-30 Thread A. T. Murray
Matt Mahoney wrote on Fri, 30 Nov 2007: > [...] > If you don't want to give up your position at the > top of the food chain, then don't build AI. Too late. http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/mind4th.html http://mind.sourceforge.net/Mind.html > But that won't happen, because evolution is > sm

[singularity] Wrong question?

2007-11-30 Thread Matt Mahoney
How can we design AI so that it won't wipe out all DNA based life, possibly this century? That is the wrong question. I was reading http://sl4.org/wiki/SoYouWantToBeASeedAIProgrammer and realized that (1) I am not smart enough to be on their team and (2) even if SIAI does assemble a team of the w