My son Zeb read Candide by Voltaire, and was taken by the idea that this
is the best of all possible worlds.
He has applied this to AGI and the Singularity, in the following passage
from a SF story he wrote last week:
"
Out of the factory, designed with the sole purpose of generating such
things, came the first of this type of 'MAN'.
You see, it was a 'NOT' sort of 'MAN'. ...
The factory released a robot, not a 'Man child', not a 'son of a gun'.
Its creators spent decades of work designing it, programming it, and
building it, so that it could simulate human intelligence, only with one
great difference: It wasn't idiotic.
The robot was named Quedice Lagente. Quedice's owner, Pablenjamin
Gojurtse, loved the show "Que dice La Gente". He named his greatest
invention after his favorite show. Pablenjamin had died two years ago,
in his homeland Mexicslovakistan.
Quedice Lagente, being designed to learn infinitely fast, learned all
immediately with its perfect intuition, then decided to hibernate.
Before he hibernated, the people tried to convince Quedice to make the
world a better place. They tried reprogramming him, but whenever Quedice
was stupid enough to want the world better, he wasn't capable of it. The
people eventually restored Quedice to his original state, and left him
sitting.
Quedice always had said this: "I cannot make this world a better place.
All is for the best in this most perfect of all possible worlds. And by
world I also mean reality, or any existence, dimension, plane, or even
thing. I cannot make the best any better. You ask for what is impossible."
"
;-)
-- Ben
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